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It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. … The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.

Barbara De Angelis

I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.
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Lifetime Moments Real
Men aren’t the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they’ve been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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Crazy Men Years
I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
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Degree Love Want
When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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Commitment Energy Love Relationship
It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better – all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.
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Civilization Creating Unique
When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?
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Done Enough Happen Know
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
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Courage Life Love Yourself
The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness; it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.
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Block Doorway Happiness Obstacle Purpose
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
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Change Inspirational Life
When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.
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Happiness Looks Surrender
It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.
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Authenticity Courage Inside Person Same
All addictions have one thing in common – they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
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Addiction Common Moments
I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it’s scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.
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Knowing People Scary
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
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Inspirational Karma Kindness
Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
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Serious Silence Solitude
There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.
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Human never Ordinary World
Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
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Home Meditation Silence
One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you’re wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.
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Change Dresses Yellow
I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.
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Believe Heart Ice
If you don’t develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won’t be any happier when you get more.
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Enjoy Happiness Skill
When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.
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Constant Gratitude Prayer
Living with integrity means… behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
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Integrity Mean Way
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
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Love Real Relationship
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, ‘I was always happy.’ Hopefully, we will be able to say, ‘I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.’
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Happiness Inspirational Real
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break… but broken live on.
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Break Broken Heart Loving
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
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Inspirational Order Spiritual
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
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Go Letting Love Meaningful

It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. … The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.

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