"Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past."

-- Robert Holden

#Giving Up Quotes #Past Quotes #Order Quotes

“I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.”
“Possession is nine-tenths of the law.”
“Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And the angels were puzzled To know why the people went thus, And why they stayed so long within.”
“You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.”
“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.”
“After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past.”

Source : Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.199, Vintage
“Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.”
“Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.”

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