At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.
Safak Pavey
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly ... ERIN MORGENSTERN In the beginning it was all black and white. MAUREEN O'HARA Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.” “I’m in lov... ERIN MORGENSTERN Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER 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... 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... I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET 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... All the things that are in the past are in the past. PABLO SANDOVAL There's no sustenance in the past. VIOLETTE LEDUC Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey. CHRIS HEIMERDINGER Your past, is your past, it has come and gone so stop worrying about it SOTONYE ANGA I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future. DAN QUAYLE That's history. I say history because it happened in the past. MURRAY WALKER For grey matter, there is no black and white. If you think in black and white, then you do not use e... PETEK KABAKCI To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that. AIDAN QUINN It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. GRAHAM GREENE Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... 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 Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... 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 I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY 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 Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... 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 Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today. SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous. 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 I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... NEIL GAIMAN People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the tempt... THOMAS GILOVICH Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live. STEVE GOODIER I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not. STEVE NASH There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your ... DAN PEARCE That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future. PHILIP EMEAGWALI People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair. J.D. SALINGER Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN The goal of any spiritual person is to strive towards attaining self-realization by living spontaneo... KILROY J. OLDSTER The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it. GINA GREENLEE What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in ... KEN ROBINSON Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way y... PAULO COELHO He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, ... STUART HADDON There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white. REBECCA SOLNIT By the terms of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June of last year legalizing the practice of dest... STEVEN A. COULTER Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training. WARREN CUCCURULLO Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience. HOWARD RHEINGOLD I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past. HARRY HAMLIN What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s... JOHN GREEN What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh. A.A. MILNE And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur... JAMES JONES Be present in all things and thankful for all things. MAYA ANGELOU Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo... BETTY SMITH Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw... 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 Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there... ALBERT EINSTEIN The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. LAUREN KATE Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end.... DEYTH BANGER Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things... ELIZABETH VON ARNIM Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to... JERRY SPINELLI How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact? PAULA STOKES Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r... THICH NHAT HANH To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck. JOHN KUYPERS Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect... JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St... JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ... JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.” “Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?” “Yeah,”... JOHN GREEN
More Safak Pavey
Many female politicians get intimidated by the aggressive behaviour of men. I don't. Not because... SAFAK PAVEY Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no s... SAFAK PAVEY The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable cr... SAFAK PAVEY I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or n... SAFAK PAVEY Bear in mind how valuable a secular Turkey is for the world. SAFAK PAVEY The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence publ... SAFAK PAVEY I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life. SAFAK PAVEY One of women's greatest values is compassion. SAFAK PAVEY I come from a fragmented society. A country proud to serve as a bridge between Europe and Asia yet u... SAFAK PAVEY It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result... SAFAK PAVEY Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your h... SAFAK PAVEY The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a re... SAFAK PAVEY I am looking forward to the Games - it has been nice to have something to focus on. I know that if I... JO PAVEY I have been training really hard. JO PAVEY There are still four weeks to go but I am already looking forward to the Commonwealth Games. We had ... JO PAVEY I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities. ELIF SAFAK Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do beli... ELIF SAFAK I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story l... ELIF SAFAK I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish ... ELIF SAFAK For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God. ELIF SAFAK I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, in... ELIF SAFAK I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do. ELIF SAFAK God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other ... ELIF SAFAK