"Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientationâ€”choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing."

-- Ian Gawler

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“NASA appreciates the efforts of Congress to resolve restrictions placed on our partnership with Russia. Congress' action helps to ensure the continuous presence of U.S. astronauts on the International Space Station.”
“In the West, we have become addicted to work. Americans now work the longest hours in the world. And the result is not health, wealth and wisdom, but rather a lot of anxiety, a lot of ill health and a lot of debt.”

Source : Tom Hodgkinson (2013). “How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto”, p.11, Harper Collins
“It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.”
“â€ŽW. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.”
“I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.”

Source : "When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.
“I find that when I'm ready for something to end, I transition quickly. But when something ends before its time, I find it hard to move on.”

Source : "Life Unexpected's Kristoffer Polaha & Emma Caulfield Dish on Everyone's Fave: Love Triangles!". Interview with Kristoffer Polaha, www.eonline.com. November 30, 2010.
“Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.”
“Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.”

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