"I donâ€™t think we ever really live in the present; instead, weâ€™re either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation and recollection. Thatâ€™s where I lived my life, always wanting, longing, wishing."

-- Jonathan Hull

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Wish Quotes

“The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.”
“I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether married or alone, in happiness or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or adversity -- I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. I want it; oh, I want it.”
“A cupcake is like a great pop song. The whole world in less than three minutes. And it's impossible to have a bad cupcake. In New York you walk everywhere. So I'm always looking, always on the eternal search for the perfect cupcake. I take them very seriously. It's like hunting and gathering for me.”
“But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.”
“Watch over me, Father, so that everything I do may be with the intention of pleasing Jesus.”
“Here lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.”
“It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves...”
“This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.”

Source : Alexandra Fuller (2002). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood”, p.287, Random House

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