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The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.


Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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J.D. SALINGER In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
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DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
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JIM GENOVESE Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
AMIT RAY Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY 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'...
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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.
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ANUJ SOMANY 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.
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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.
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JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
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NEIL GAIMAN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu...
KATHLEEN TESSARO Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
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TERENCE T. GORSKI Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
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CRISTINA MARRERO Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
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As...
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AMIT RAY When life gives you lemons, say cool, what else you got?
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CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
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E.J. PATTEN Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
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C. JOYBELL C. Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
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ORSON SCOTT CARD We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are...
BILL WATTERSON Your past, is your past, it has come and gone so stop worrying about it
SOTONYE ANGA All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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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.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the...
JONATHAN TROPPER Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he...
JONATHAN STROUD A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e...
JONATHAN SWIFT A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a...
JONATHAN CARROLL Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.
JONATHAN PRICE Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking
JONATHAN STROUD The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th...
JONATHAN STROUD Looks?” the skull said. “Who cares about that? It’s superficial. Outward appearance doesn’t ...
JONATHAN STROUD Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that.
JONATHAN STROUD Because you're unique . You shine like a beacon, attracting the attention of all dark things." It ch...
JONATHAN STROUD Nothing could keep me from you. Nothing in life or Death...
JONATHAN STROUD I'ts how I want to remember him, the way he was that night: with horrors up ahead and horrors at our...
JONATHAN STROUD Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost,” ...
JONATHAN STROUD Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your f...
JONATHAN STROUD Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit ...
JONATHAN STROUD God rest her soul and may she never walk at night
JONATHAN STROUD A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, six...
JONATHAN STROUD One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.
JONATHAN STROUD According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, m...
JONATHAN STROUD Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a cer...
JONATHAN STROUD Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the m...
JONATHAN STROUD Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.
JONATHAN STROUD More ghosts have been created in bedrooms than anywhere else.
JONATHAN STROUD Strange how close the darkness is, even when things seem brightest. Even in the glare of a summer no...
JONATHAN STROUD Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
JONATHAN SWIFT