Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.
Miroslav Volf
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE 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 Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time. VICTOR CRUZ The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS That day I realized that at least for the time being, I was becoming Christian’s somebody. A... MELYSSA WINCHESTER No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON 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 I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY 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 You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON 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... 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 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 When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY 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. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to... JERRY SPINELLI Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things... ELIZABETH VON ARNIM To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck. JOHN KUYPERS In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH Life happens. Shit happens. And it happens a lot. To a lot of people. COLLEEN HOOVER Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu... KATHLEEN TESSARO Get pass your past, be a presence in your present, and let no one refute your future. JOHNNIE DENT JR. It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA 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 Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We're looking forward to the games getting started, and that's what we're focused on now. We don't h... JENNIFER HINSON Never let sadness of the past or fear of the future, ruin the happiness in this moment. BJ MORIN Seize the day, then let it go. MARTY RUBIN It's not just me; it happens all the time to all kinds of naturalists. Bird watchers, people who stu... HARRY ZIRLIN The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people... KARON WADDELL If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. AMIT RAY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to ... JERRY SPINELLI The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model ... PHILIP YANCEY 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 Write to Say something, Say to Make something, Make to Be something. SHASHIDHAR SA The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape. JANET TURPIN MYERS The egoic mind imagines a problem, and then it imagines a solution. When we get caught up in these t... GINA LAKE The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever. MARTY RUBIN In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, an... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In... MAJID KAZMI An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER A lot of people in Richmond who come from a variety of backgrounds and faith communities are working... JEFFREY CLARK I really like The Catcher in the Rye a lot. ETHAN SUPLEE Letting go doesn’t just mean letting go of the past, but letting go of an unknown future; and embr... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO In my 26 years I haven't run into a baby who was rolled over on in bed, or who suffocated next to mo... DIANE ABBOTT It can happen to your friends and neighbors, and most of the time it happens between two people who ... JEANIE REIMER There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO When life gives you lemons, say cool, what else you got? CARMEN IN THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS 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
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