"If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything."
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"If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply."
"Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough"
"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."
"When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes."
"Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being."
"People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too."
"We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us."
"Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you."
"The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is."
"The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment."
"Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly."
"this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana."
"There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life."
"The world is nothing but a moment."
"All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write."
"The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory"
"Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors."
"And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old."
"We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us."