My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.
Benjamin DeCasseres
Related 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 Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv... ABIGAIL GEORGE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER 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 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 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 Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly ... ERIN MORGENSTERN Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself! V.C. ANDREWS The goal of any spiritual person is to strive towards attaining self-realization by living spontaneo... KILROY J. OLDSTER In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero... GRAEME SIMSION Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way. HENRY HON The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people... KARON WADDELL I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. When life gives you lemons, say cool, what else you got? CARMEN IN THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN 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 Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in th... AMIT RAY In the beginning it was all black and white. MAUREEN O'HARA They could play an endless game of hide-and -seek in so many rooms and up and down the halls that in... EUDORA WELTY Sometimes, how others look at it must not be how you should see it! Sometimes, how it means to other... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu... KATHLEEN TESSARO When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af... MICHAEL STEIN Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain. THE PROPHET OF LIFE I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.” “I’m in lov... ERIN MORGENSTERN Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH All the things that are in the past are in the past. PABLO SANDOVAL 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 There's no sustenance in the past. VIOLETTE LEDUC 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
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