[O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.
I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts....
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Nora Ephron
When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.
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Shannon L. Alder
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
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Roy T. Bennett
Ester asked why people are sad." That’s simple, " says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it...
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Paulo Coelho
Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.
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Roy T. Bennett
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Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be shocked when Halliburton overcharges for everything from towels to gas, when Parsons' sub, sub, sub-contractor builds a police academy where...
The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.
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