#minding

When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls. (...) You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that — then any time at all will be the right time for you. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#reminding #inspirational

If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings were connected to each other in the deepest way and thus it was impossible to harm another without harming oneself. ↗

— David Zindell

#reminding #inspirational

I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding. ↗

— Jenny Valentine

#life #mind #minding #nobody #life

Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind. ↗

— David Zindell

#reminding #life

How can it be?" she wondered. "I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns(....) But not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else — what do they look to one another, then? What do trees look like to them, or houses, or real horses, or their own children? ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#men

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#remember

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them. ↗

— Michael Chiklis

#being #challenging #constantly #dad #i

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#excuses #her #i #i am #kind

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#come #feel #home #i #i am

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#circumstances #does #even #everything #give