"We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past."

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Source : "Republic of China culture wakens in former capital" by Tracy You, www.cnn.com. January 22, 2013.

Chiang Kai-shek

#Dream Quotes #Past Quotes #Live In The Present Quotes

“We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own feelings get so complicated that you forget the ways another human being can be vulnerable. You spend a lot of energy protecting yourself. All those layers and motivations and feelings. You get hurt, you stay hurt sometimes. The hurt affects your ability to go forward. And words. All the words between us. Words can be permanent. Certain ones are impossible to forgive.”
“I believe if youâ€™re going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone.”
“When business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, Well, what's the use! We've done everything possible to stir up a little business and there is nothing doing so what's the use of trying! There is always a way. There was a way in and there is a way out. And success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw, and says, There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it. The stagnator gathers green scum, finally dries up and leaves an unsightly hollow.”
“You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.”
“There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.”
“I am a Muslim. I am a practising Muslim. I don't - i accept proper relationship with a man and woman and the family life. It is not our business to knock at every door and checking people's orientation and casting aspersions or having prejudice against people.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au
“Now that spring is no longer to be recognised in blossoms or in new leaves on trees, I must look for it in myself. I feel the ice of myself cracking. I feel myself loosen and flow again, reflecting the world. That is what spring means.”

Source : David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.60, Random House
“Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.”

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