"Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved."

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Source : Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.18, Broadway Books

Mitch Albom

#Past Quotes #Forgiving Quotes #Too Late Quotes

“We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.”
“For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.”
“Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.”
“Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.”
“Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.”
“The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.”
“A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.”
“Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and structures. "Oh, we're gonna build a fort out of clothes, and now that we're in the fort we're going to pretend that we're prisoners," or whatever.”

Source : Source: app.longform.org

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