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“Firewood becomes ash, and it does not become firewood again.”

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Book:The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master

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“When I visit the cemetery, I walk past hundreds, possibly thousands of stories now silenced. And I know that history ‘recorded’ holds the adventures that history ‘lost’ let's slip through its fingers. And I’ve thought that I need to live a life worthy of being ‘recorded’ so that the adventure that might help another never slips through the fingers of anything.”

Stories Memories History Lessons Fingers Cemetery Adventures Life Stories Recorded

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“May this day be recorded in the book of possibilities. Know that this limitation only exists when strengthened by badly accepted suggestions; pick up your hidden power, which you would not know you had if you did not come to this book, and say "I am the one and I bow to the Lord for all eternity, for generations.”

Book Possibilities Recorded

Author:Alan Maiccon

“Seconds are irreversible, but memories take us back to the seconds in which the memories were recorded.”

Memory Irreversible Back Second Recorded

Author:Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Who would sleep with the lights on 24 hours a day?”

Security Prison Jail Inmates Prisoners Watched Recorded 24 Hours A Day On Camera Sleep With The Lights On

Author:Steven Magee

“Ever 'habiting' and never 'inhabiting' is a bad habit. …no way to live. Habits are means, not ends. Don’t allow habits to become ends unto themselves. Get beyond habits, not behind.”

Ends Habits Beyond Richie Norton Anti Time Management Time Tipping Means Inhabiting Habiting

Book:Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

Source: Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Some of our old ways are better forgotten, but not all of them.”

Nnedi Okorafor

Book:Zahrah the Windseeker

Source: Zahrah the Windseeker

“I wanted to ask, 'Why did you let this happen?' but that was blasphemy. You never ask why. It was not a question for you to ask.”

Spiritual Religion Religious Questioning Asking Questions Blasphemy Why Asking Why Binti Nnedi Okorafor

Book:Binti

Source: Binti

“Los okekes tienen la piel del color de la noche porque fueron creados antes que el día. Fueron los primeros. Más tarde, mucho después de eso, llegaron los nurus. Proceden de las estrellas, y por eso su piel es del color del sol.”

Nnedi Okorafor Literatura Fantasía Quien Teme A La Muerte

Book:Who Fears Death

Source: Who Fears Death

“Sometimes we find that responsibly discerning something from a distance is nothing more than cowardice creating an excuse to keep our distance from that which we fear. And when that’s the case, life will shut down our discernment so that we are left with no option but to engage what we would otherwise run from.”

Fear Excuse Cowardice Discernment Flee Shut Down Run From

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“I dinna want your money." Lady Merritt blinked in surprise. "I didn't mean I was going to hand you a sack of cash. I'm a businesswoman, not a fairy godmother." The sudden edge to her tone, subtle though it was, was keen enough to lacerate.”

Merritt Sterling Shut Down

Book:Devil in Disguise

Source: Devil in Disguise

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