“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
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“Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it.”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms - i you find yourself at a loss for what do with them, overcome with sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignnes of your own body - it's because your hands remember a time when the division between mind and body, brain and heart, what's inside and what's outside, was so much less. ”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
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