"It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures."

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Source : Ally Condie (2014). “Atlantia”, p.189, Penguin

Ally Condie

#Past Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“He (Thomas) is our best post-up player and now we will have to be more active in the paint. I think we can hold it down, but we will miss him though.”
“When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.”

Source : Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company
“The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.”

Source : Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”
“It seems, in theory, that I should be able to control at least a few of my bad habits. The problem is that my habits make me depressed, and the depression makes me want to indulge my habits and so I do. There isn't any solution to this.”

Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.
“Be confident and comfortable with yourself. If you know us, we are definitely not shy, and never try to be anything we are not. No matter what anyone tells you, you are perfect, just the way you are.”

Source : Source: www.sheknows.com
“Beautiful things never last. That’s why fireflies flash.”

Source : Song: Fireflies, Album: Daylight
“It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.”
“Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.”

Source : Anita Brookner (1985). “Look at me”, Plume

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