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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 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... That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER 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 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 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 I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... NEIL GAIMAN An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER 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 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 I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something. J.D. SALINGER I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite youn... J.D. SALINGER 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 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 Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY Each day I was more vulnerable than the last. Each day he stripped away more of my sense of self. An... C.J. ROBERTS 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 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... I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS ,i>Since the Holy Spirit Gifts men and women alike, women should bel allowed to lead in the manne... ALAN GARRETT Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and ev... J.D. SALINGER I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window. J.D. SALINGER If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. AMIT RAY
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Which is the white stag as far as songwrit... J. TILLMAN Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power. J. TILLMAN It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased. J. TILLMAN My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift. J. TILLMAN I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop unt... J. COLE Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on ... J. COLE There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn'... J. COLE For Black Music Month, I would definitely want to celebrate Isaac Hayes. JUICY J I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant. J. COLE I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard. JESSIE J I have calmed down my look. Is it really necessary to wear all that jewelry and makeup at 7 A.M.? Wh... JESSIE J Time is the glue that bonds a broken heart, but love is the air which dries the glue. -J. Franklin. J. FRANKLIN I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long... J. COLE It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my granda... JESSIE J The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig... J. KRISHNAMURTI Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n... J. SWARTZ I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres. JESSIE J People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw beca... J. MERRIDEW There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it... J. STERLING We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don’t want to tell us... J. LYNN Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. J. YAHL Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obsti... J. SWARTZ There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship... J. KRISHNAMURTI Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mer... J. KRISHNAMURTI Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle. J. MASAI A bureaucrat is a person who cuts red tape sideways. J. MCCABE I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. J. HELLER Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with ... J. BARTLETT My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants. J. BROTHERTON A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels o... J. HAWES