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In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead.


Toni Morrison

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TONI MORRISON Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in...
TONI MORRISON Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.
TONI MORRISON We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His ...
TONI MORRISON If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?'

'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world w...
TONI MORRISON Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't...
TONI MORRISON Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] ...
TONI MORRISON When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.
JANET TURPIN MYERS A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY 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 The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.
NORAH JONES Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
TONI MORRISON Seize the day, then let it go.
MARTY RUBIN I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.
JAMILA WOODS Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD Be careful to whom you give your heart. Because that person might be the one who kills it or relives...
THE QUIET GIRL Can an Angel have white and black wings at the same time?, or it must be a creation of the devil?, i...
THE QUIET GIRL Love is a tragedy for those who feel it, and a blessing for those who live it.
THE QUIET GIRL We started as strangers and we will end as that too...
THE QUIET GIRL The day you forget your past, finally you would be free
THE QUIET GIRL I miss you, I need you... but most of all I love you.
THE QUIET GIRL I don´t know anymore if I should consider you the reason of my happiness or the reason of my pain
THE QUIET GIRL From everything we lived together, the thing I like the most was me being in your mind. Being in you...
THE QUIET GIRL Sometimes we have to let go someone we love, not because we dont care about them anymore, because we...
THE QUIET GIRL I don't give up at love... I just give up at you.
THE QUIET GIRL Someday I would like to meet someone who made a winner in love instead of a loser
THE QUIET GIRL Love is magical and beautiful when you give it to the right person...
THE QUIET GIRL [The employees who toured with the Dead will feel the pinch, as well.] There's crew and there's secu...
THE GRATEFUL DEAD Every silver linings got a touch of grey
I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will sur...
THE GRATEFUL DEAD I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] ...
TONI MORRISON Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disabil...
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
JONATHAN HARNISCH Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when...
SOLANGE NICOLE Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
JOHN KUYPERS When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writin...
JUNOT DIAZ Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham
ARIEL SERAPHINO I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Stree...
SAOIRSE RONAN Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Stop a minute, Ambrose!" interrupted Master Nathaniel. "I've got a sudden silly whim that we should ...
HOPE MIRRLEES The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on.
He took a face from the ancient gallery
THE DOORS 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, ...
NANCY GIBBS I am a really quiet person. I just like to be with my children and my family and being home. I live ...
MIGUEL COTTO …the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enoug...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISON The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend
TONI MORRISON Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic...
TONI MORRISON I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked...
BARRY LEVINSON Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.
TONI MORRISON "If the Count from Sesame Street where to count my body parts, it would take his at least 6 seconds ...
NATHAN ELMO MELO They (drivers) are getting faster, up to 45 mph at times. People are complaining. It's hard enough t...
DENNIS MORLEY Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enou...
ROBERT LYNN ASPRIN I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES The egoic mind imagines a problem, and then it imagines a solution. When we get caught up in these t...
GINA LAKE The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.
MARTY RUBIN In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, an...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, ...
STUART HADDON In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of decease...
TESS GERRITSEN I like to think of us as Clearasil on the face of the nation. Jim Morrison would have said that if h...
LOU REED If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY too young to have worked with mules, but old enough to have worked in a sugar mill.
JOHN BERRY The coach never promised me a starting position, but he did say that if I work hard enough, I'll see...
LEONARD GORDON Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.
CHAKA KHAN If your pain is the same like somebody else, I think that this will be the best couple it will be.
DEYTH BANGER The way we played tonight, I don't know if we had much to play for, and that's the frustrating thing...
GREG SHELEY Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your ...
DAN PEARCE He just summoned the dead with coke and cheeseburgers
RICK RIORDAN Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In...
MAJID KAZMI We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Lo...
IOAN GRUFFUDD In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way y...
PAULO COELHO Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
AMIT RAY But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people....
WILLIAM LANDAY There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception
ALDOUS HUXLEY Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in m...
MOHSIN HAMID The way is yours for the asking - the way is yours for the taking. The way is as it should be.
KAREN HACKEL Okay, it's pretty obvious what we're doing here, people. If it's dead - fucking KILL IT
ROBERT KIRKMAN I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.
GEORGE A. ROMERO It was great. That's the biggest cheer I put out the whole time I've been here. Seeing her win the g...
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TONI MORRISON Rebuffed from his fine feelings, Milkman matched her cold tone. "You loved those white folks that mu...
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TONI MORRISON guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our o...
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TONI MORRISON You looking good."
"Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
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TONI MORRISON Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'

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TONI MORRISON And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we w...
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TONI MORRISON We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISON ...the change was adjustment without improvement.
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TONI MORRISON Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
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TONI SORENSON How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you.
TONI SORENSON Nature makes the best paths that leads to the best places.
TONI SORENSON ..And i can't get you out of my mind,
God knows how hard I've tried
TONI BRAXTON I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They&...
TONI COLLETTE The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
TONI COLLETTE Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can't believe...
TONI TENNILLE I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to ...
TONI COLLETTE I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it c...
TONI SERVILLO My fears teach me courage. My weaknesses coach me to strength. My scars remind me not to make the sa...
TONI SORENSON I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
TONI BRAXTON I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche some...
TONI COLLETTE Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
TONI BRAXTON Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it.
TONI SORENSON Weight loss doesn't begin in the gym with a dumb bell; it starts in your head with a decision.
TONI SORENSON I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
TONI BRAXTON I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavou...
TONI COLLETTE The secret is not following the right path, it's following that right path to the end. Don't quit, m...
TONI SORENSON The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' albu...
TONI TENNILLE Over the last three years I've been broke, dumped, and pimped.
TONI BRAXTON People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with ...
TONI COLLETTE Take a discovery walk today to find what's missing in your life. There's peace in the whisper of the...
TONI SORENSON Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more t...
TONI TENNILLE It's the largest tropical storm we've ever had, ... It's engulfed the entire state. This is going to...
TONI JENNINGS I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the mom...
TONI COLLETTE After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts abou...
TONI COLLETTE Cameron and I actually do wear the same size, ... It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.
TONI COLLETTE Hello, sex on legs
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TONI SIMONETTI I believe in nurturing the inner world.
TONI COLLETTE I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.
TONI COLLETTE Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-comin...
TONI BLAKE Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of m...
TONI COLLETTE