"It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future."

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Source : Amy Krouse Rosenthal (1998). “The Book of Eleven: An Itemized Collection of Brain Lint”, Andrews McMeel Pub

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#Memories Quotes #Busy Quotes #Making Memories Quotes

“As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.”
“When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.”
“The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together.”
“For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving?”
“Damon [Stoudamire] gave me advice of things I need to do to get through the whole season. The main thing is taking care of my body. I have to treat my body like a machine. What you put in it is what you'll get out of it.”
“Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit - and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.”
“That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.”

Source : Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.160, University of Missouri Press
“It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't been able to quite compete as I'm accustomed to. At this point, I just really want to enjoy it and put it all on the line when I'm out there.”

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