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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away. BEAU MIRCHOFF She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING 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 A more consistent and verifiable method of lie detection could lead to changes in this particular re... FEROZE B. MOHAMED Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON 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 Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of. FRANCESCO TOTTI God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in th... AMIT RAY Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha! JEFF KINNEY It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody. J.D. SALINGER 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 We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON This world is a joke, and I'm in it OLIWAH GOUDEE 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. In particular, they have expressed concern about legal challenges to the distribution of stem-cell g... JOE DONNELLY Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it. GINA GREENLEE Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye: To han me foul and old til that I deye, GEOFFREY CHAUCER We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big probl... ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero... GRAEME SIMSION Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person yo... ELLEN WRIGHT Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You do that Helen", Mallory dared. "And tell him we said to f*ck off while youre at it". CHLOE NEILL 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 The goal of any spiritual person is to strive towards attaining self-realization by living spontaneo... KILROY J. OLDSTER 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON The plural of anecdote is not data. MARC BEKOFF An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER We have to keep a good frame of mind and not overlook La Villa. Anytime you do that, youre going to ... HECTOR GARCIA We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Abiding does not mean sitting idly by. It means resting in the work, resting in the moment, resting ... ROBIN BERTRAM if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances. JULIA SOREL If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list. CHAUCER Lord, help us to choose humility over pride. Help us to choose love over our reputation. ANDRENA SAWYER Write to Say something, Say to Make something, Make to Be something. SHASHIDHAR SA The candle is the light of life that is constantly thriving to hang on and light up the darkness of ... ENOCK MAREGESI Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it. KATHERINE PATERSON If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another. ALAN COHEN You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttp... BOB MOAWAD You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break: 1. Stop stressing 2. Stop worrying 3. Give re... GERMANY KENT 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 Ses’ach L’ru!” Came the slightly muffled chorus. This was Ruminarii for ‘Hail the Captain.�... CHRISTINA ENGELA 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 Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather th... BARTON GELLMAN I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET When life gives you lemons, say cool, what else you got? CARMEN IN THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS DHS' role is that of a steward of data about the use of the law. This is a law, not a DHS program, a... MEL KOHN I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked. RICK RIORDAN The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER 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 Rise up & attack the day with Passion. The struggle you're in today is developing the strength y... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues o... BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK
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