"Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done."

-- Alex Van Halen

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“Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.”
“Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.”
“Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.”

Source : Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company
“Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 58), 1895.
“My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.”
“And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.”

Source : Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.115, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“When itâ€™s quiet in my head like this, thatâ€™s when the voice doesnâ€™t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When itâ€™s quiet like this, thatâ€™s when I truly hate myself.”
“Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who arenâ€™t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this countryâ€™s British Heritage.”

Source : "Tony Abbott on Q and A". www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010.

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