Nothing in life was ever clearly drawn, obviously just, or totally emotionally satisfying, but the moment-to-moment stuff of reality featured infinitely more complication, sleaze, struggle, true beauty, unfairness, profundity, passion, and depth of consciousness than she, in her frantic struggle to be somebody other than her unspectacular self, had been previously aware of. page 302
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KEN FOLLETT She was very politicized early on in her life. She was far more politically aware than her husband w... DIGBY DIEHL She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the... THOMAS HARDY She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She f... ROBERT M. DRAKE I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, I've had it! I know I'm much ... ANTHONY ROBBINS I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, ''I've had it! I know I'm muc... ANTHONY ROBBINS There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a... YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he... NICHOLAS SPARKS As she looked in the full-length mirror in her dressing room, she added a few ropes of pearls, pinne... LYNN STEWARD She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT As she looked in the full-length mirror in her dressing room, she added a few ropes of pearls, pinne... LYNN STEWARD Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments. AMIT RAY There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfort... STEVE MARABOLI Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... DANIELLE STEEL Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, ... SHERRY THOMAS Mindfulness is not entering into another planet. 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MATTHEW LEWIS Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of inte... MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sens... AL LEWIS (What she meant was fencing is relevant) because of the moment-to-moment interaction of two actors t... ERIC BRYANT She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ... MICHAEL ONDAATJE There is no beauty without passion or love. There is no victory without sacrafice or struggle. The b... RICKY PEREZ She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders ... ROMAN PAYNE Clearly, Mrs. Parks was bigger than her natural family. She was bigger than her church family. She b... CHARLES ELLIS The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. I... 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