In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.
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Related I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... 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 There were dozens of stones of all sizes in the small meadow. Tall stones, bigger than either of the... NEIL GAIMAN To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET 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 There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO 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 Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON 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 When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, ... STUART HADDON That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you. H.L. DAVIS What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT 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 I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest. “Hazel Grace. No. I will gran... JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma... JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�... JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you... JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ... JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.” Me: “I’m okay.” Augustus: “Okay.” (... JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone. JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu... J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima JOHN GREEN But it's your life. JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round. JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ... JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace. JOHN GREEN you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and... JOHN GREEN That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt. JOHN GREEN Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me ... JOHN GREEN Writing does not resurrect. It buries.. JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. Bu... JOHN GREEN So how’s it going?” “Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?”<... JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y... JOHN GREEN Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI 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 Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER ,i>Since the Holy Spirit Gifts men and women alike, women should bel allowed to lead in the manne... ALAN GARRETT If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. AMIT RAY For I inhabit the spaces in between, where auras mix and hearts reach out and knowing hovers, and wh... THE WIND SOPHIA IN FEATHERFOOT Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the ... WILLIAM SILVERMAN That's history. I say history because it happened in the past. MURRAY WALKER
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