It's A Present Quotes

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future.

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.

Memories establish the past

You know history better than I do, you've been teaching all your life. Without real opposition you get dictators down the line. Idi, Amin, Mugabe. No democracy without opposition.

Wow. Whoops. Sorry. ... I just lost two hours inside a YouTube kitten warp.

Life isn't a promise

Set yourself free. Realize you already have everything you need and don’t need anything else.

To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational.

How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker

Anyone can perform good deeds for an audience

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

Man is seldom judged on the basis of his good deeds. If bad in past the good in present doesn’t matter

The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously.

It doesn’t matter. He deserves toknow how he impacted your life

Whoever makes you feelthat deeply and that intensely, deserves to know how they’veimpacted you.

One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.

[Present over perfect is] about rejecting the myth that every day is a new opportunity to prove our worth, and about the truth that our worth is inherent, given by God, not earned by our hustling.

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.— Walter Benjamin, "Unpacking My Library

Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true open of security and opportunity and fellowship and respect.

If you're preaching, I've already got religion. And if you're selling, I ain't buying--unless you've got binoculars. I could use some new binoculars.

Busy is good because it showsyou’re alive.

There are more important things in life than chasing after this myth of perfection.

the soul mate doesn’t have tobe a romantic relationship.Sometimes in life, you meetpeople when you need them, and there is an immediateconnection.

The present was perfect and I wasgoing to stay in it for as long as possible.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future

If you lovesomeone, tell them.

I’m a holiday Christian at best and I’d never given much thought to demons. They were an adult version of the boogieman hiding in every kid’s closet.

Remember, the security and happiness you are seeking is not in your material possessions, your degrees, or relationships. It is much closer than you think.

Whiteness has been, above all, a racial formation that presupposed and reproduced relations of inequality and domination between "whites" and their racial others.

Peculiar isn't it

Letting go isn’t about having the courage to release the past

As Haw prepared to leave, he started to feel more alive, knowing that he was finally able to laugh at himself, let go and move on.

If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it?

Too evident sorrow does not inspire pity but repugnance, it is the sign of mental instability or of bad manners: it is morbid.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. But one no longer has the right to say so aloud.

When you are living in the present, you know what's important now for you and you act on that knowing.

Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present.

You cannot taste the oil until you pour out the vinegar.

We decide where the time goes. There's so much freedom in that, and so much responsibility.

Oh, the quiet moments alone with God I sacrificed in order to cross a few things off the to-do list I worshiped.

Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.

The impossible is possible in your mind and in your dreams.

A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor.

Where there is (consideration for) merit karma and demerit karma

I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs.

Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn’t splash back on us.