"God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment."
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"Be control of your mind."
"People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine."
"The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love."
"I even love the smell of books."
"-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways."
"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it."
"Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport."
"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love."
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy started because of a thumb's up I gave to Douglas Adams on his birthday as I said, "Happy 42."#OutBoastKanye"
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny."
"You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday."
"White letters plus white paper equals invisibility. Just because you can’t see my love for you, doesn’t mean I didn’t write about it."
"Success always hugs you in private,but failure slaps you in the public..."
"After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was."
"In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."
"The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection."
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