"We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together."

-- Jostein Gaarder

#Past Quotes #Together Quotes #Futures Together Quotes

“Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.”
“Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift.”
“Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.”
“I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.”
“The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.”
“Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.”
“For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.”
“I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.”

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