Margaret Mahy
Related JOHN GREEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING RICHARD CARLSON I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... RICHARD CARLSON RENEE AHDIEH THICH NHAT HANH MANDY HALE There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO LYDIA MILLET God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON RICK RIORDAN ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM WILLIAM FAULKNER J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY THICH NHAT HANH JAY ASHER RALPH WALDO EMERSON When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits. THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO SOPHOCLES G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. KARINA HALLE NEIL GAIMAN J.D. SALINGER Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE I used to dash by, feeling like a dartboard, a big red bull's-eye that Mother pinged darts at. THE HELP I sat in the study parlor and wrote for hours-mostly term papers but also short stories, bad poetry,... THE HELP Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... MANDY HALE As you get to know what takes you away from life, you have more moments throughout your day where yo... MARY O'MALLEY JOHN GREEN KATHERINE PATERSON If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another. ALAN COHEN BOB MOAWAD TAMMARA WEBBER Those who worry stumble long The Way.ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE KILROY J. OLDSTER BRENT WEEKS KIERA CASS JOHN GREEN PABLO SANDOVAL JOHN GREEN A.A. MILNE JAMES JONES MAYA ANGELOU BETTY SMITH JOHN GREEN J.D. SALINGER Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ... IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY ALBERT EINSTEIN LAUREN KATE DEYTH BANGER Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things... ELIZABETH VON ARNIM JERRY SPINELLI How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact? PAULA STOKES There's no sustenance in the past. VIOLETTE LEDUC THICH NHAT HANH To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck. JOHN KUYPERS JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN J.K. ROWLING JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG
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But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory. 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. 
Khalid would break every bone in your body for what you've done. 
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. 
When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. 
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... 
When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... 
No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... 
I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... 
I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. 
You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. 
Life is a journey, not a destination. 
Tomorrow is tomorrow.
To him, even the momentary was momentous. 
I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... 
That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... 
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... 
He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. 
Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it. 
You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttp... 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. 
Do you know why you feel destined for something greater?” 
Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for you kingdom's cause, as I walk from nothin... 
We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but cr... 
All the things that are in the past are in the past. 
What day is it?"
And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur... 
Be present in all things and thankful for all things. 
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo... 
Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there... 
The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. 
Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end.... 
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to... 
como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu... 
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to ... 
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. 
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build. 
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. 
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd. 
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. 
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare ... 
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern son... 
Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you ... 
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. 
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? 
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. 
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist. 
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an ... 
And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know wh... 
I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking. 
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schiz... 
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w... 
It was better to know the worst than to wonder. 
So you are a vampire."
Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls. 
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. 
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials,... 
Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. 
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years. 
It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my st... 
You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, ev... 
I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and fla... 
I think, to give our bookshelf a little credit, our area of the library and the bookstore has attrac... 
Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live. 
Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle ... 
Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own ... 
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. 
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observ... 
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g... 
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. 
Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immedi... 