Yoenis Cespedes quote: "Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle."

I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at th...
YOENIS CESPEDES

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

Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
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E.J. PATTEN

Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON

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YOENIS CESPEDES

We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA

An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER

Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES

You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
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TAMMARA WEBBER

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FRANCINE RIVERS

She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING

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

Basically, our license to travel to Cuba had been revoked and all applications for a renewal for a l...
FRAN BRADLEY

Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody e...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO

No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS

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

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SHELLIE PALMER

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R.J. GONZALES

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GARY F EVANS...

Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER

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and...
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Now is the essence
Now is the focus
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KAREN HACKEL

I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cub...
PITBULL

Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY

Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE

The Witch 2015, has shown how religion make us, and where does this shit put us. How just by one rel...
DEYTH BANGER

A criminal pipeline from Cuba to Florida threatens U.S. national security interests with Cuban migra...
JEFF DUNCAN

What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
A.A. MILNE

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

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

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ALBERT EINSTEIN

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
LAUREN KATE

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to...
JERRY SPINELLI

Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r...
THICH NHAT HANH

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Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will chang...
JAMES CLAVELL

Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.
STEVE GOODIER

In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS...

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TERENCE T. GORSKI

Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS

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CALVIN WILSON

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GARY F EVANS...

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C. JOYBELL C.

These are the days that must happen to you.
WALT WHITMAN

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SIMONE ELKELES

The point is to be in the moment, not miss the moment while trying to capture it.
SHERALYN PRATT

It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA

Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin...
AKIROQ BROST

I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
JONATHAN HARNISCH

Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON

Boring people live boring lives.
HABEEB AKANDE

It was a good opportunity for the other players to play. We used four different (middle hitters).
JANE PASSA

Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA

In the rough-and-tumble play of politics, dog-whistle messages are copiously dispatched over the hea...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH

The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE

There's a preacher on the radio that says the Beatles are trying to hypnotize us and turn us all int...
CHRIS FABRY

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KILROY J. OLDSTER

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GARY F EVANS...

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GARY F EVANS...

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SIMI GREWAL

If I'm not playing at a high level then I won't be in the national team.
HENRIK LARSSON

I hope those players in Cuba will have a chance to compete in it. I hope politics don't get involved...
HANK AARON

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RICHARD YATES

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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

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ABDUL HODGE

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NOLAN RYAN

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ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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WALLY SCHIRRA

The hurricane that affects Cuba today affects the United States tomorrow. And when one strikes the U...
JOSE RUBIERA

Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG

The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
WALT WHITMAN

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Forever is composed of nows.
EMILY DICKINSON

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MAYA ANGELOU

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JERRY SPINELLI

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LYDIA MILLET

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MARIA KIRILENKO

He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA

She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS

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LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART

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CHRIS WIDGER

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Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.

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Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.

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