"Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface of a river that we reached for but did not touch in time and it carried on, away. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind."

Source : Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.96, Macmillan

Augusten Burroughs

#Moving Quotes #Past Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.”
“For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system in which every star was a sun, and the universe was a vast place with no centre.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.”
“Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.”
“There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.”

Source : "Sandy Hook 2 years later: One senator's push for gun control" by Ashley Codianni, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2014.
“I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.”
“Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.”

Source : "Dear Donald Trump: Winter Does Not Disprove Global Warming" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. January 02, 2014.
“Chesterfield 1, Chester 1. Another score draw in the local derby”

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