Naomi Shihab Nye
Related She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING RICHARD CARLSON TRACY CHAPMAN KEKE PALMER In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... MANDY HALE It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA TRACY CHAPMAN THICH NHAT HANH DAVID LEVITHAN RICHARD CARLSON Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv... ABIGAIL GEORGE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES TAMMARA WEBBER LYDIA MILLET FRANCINE RIVERS Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO 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 WILLIAM FAULKNER 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 THICH NHAT HANH JAY ASHER 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 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 SOPHOCLES 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 NEIL GAIMAN , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE J. D. SOUTHER VICTORIA SCHWAB SARAH J. MAAS CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON MARY J. BLIGE J.D. SALINGER We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON RICK RIORDAN The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, m... JOOLS HOLLAND I was born on September 30, 1939, in Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. My father, ... JEAN-MARIE LEHN RUPERT MURDOCH MANDY HALE People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. C.J. ROBERTS J.D. SALINGER KILROY J. OLDSTER JOHN GREEN I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the &... PER PETTERSON PABLO SANDOVAL JOHN GREEN A.A. MILNE JAMES JONES MAYA ANGELOU BETTY SMITH JOHN GREEN 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 ALBERT EINSTEIN LAUREN KATE DEYTH BANGER Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things... ELIZABETH VON ARNIM 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 THICH NHAT HANH To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck. JOHN KUYPERS JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN J.K. ROWLING JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN
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Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. 
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally an... 
My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing i... 
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... 
I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody i... 
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. 
Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpecte... 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... 
I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... 
You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. 
Life is a journey, not a destination. 
Tomorrow is tomorrow.
To him, even the momentary was momentous. 
I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... 
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
There is no greater glory than to die for love. 
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She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. 
My mind is killing me”
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An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. 
He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. 
All the things that are in the past are in the past. 
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What day is it?"
And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur... 
Be present in all things and thankful for all things. 
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo... 
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The Rider
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I don't take vacations. 
I'm a darned good listener. 