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Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, Heaven or Hell is born. Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: "I made some mistakes, but I wasn`t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do."
It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
Humans were built to look back; that’s why we have that swivel joint in our necks.
I’ll be back so soon you won’t have time to miss me. Look after my heart - I’ve left it with you.
How many of us had tried to forget something traumatic... only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?
Whatever path that you take in your lives, you must always find time to give something back, something back to your community, give something back to your state or to your country.
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don`t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.
There`s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn`t developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.
Time is free, but it`s priceless. You can`t own it, but you can use it. You can`t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you`ve lost it you can never get it back.
You can`t look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.