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“You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.”

Looks Problem Past Desire Church Memories Building Goes On Weight Urgent Crushed Past Memories Building Something

Author:Pope Francis

“There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.”

Wisdom Past Wise Dying Goes On Clever

Author:Rajneesh

“We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire. I like that image. There has to be a unifying theory. I think there is a continuity of some kind, that my love for my wife will go on past the death of my body. Nature is perfect.”

Thinking Kind Body Past Perfect Fire Wife Theory Goes On My Wife Ashes Continuity Unifying Embers

Author:William Shatner

“My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'...it's strong. It means you're able to go on.”

Knows Mean Sometimes Able Past Strong Goes On Weak Ghost Daddy Graveyard Racket

Author:Susan Crandall

“Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it.”

Firsts Book Moments Seems Past Grows Break Doubt Impossible Goes On Accomplished Discouraged Beginners New Books

Book:Force of Circumstance: Hard times

Source: Force of Circumstance: Hard times

“Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do if we think it will be of any interest or value, to share the past. And although mine's been crooked, it's also been splendid. It's taught me to be vulnerable and humble, to write this book.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Book Past Faces Values Interest Can Do Share Mines Taught Goes On Humble Vulnerable Staring Mortality Splendid Crooked Juncture

Author:Kate Mulgrew

“But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.”

Past Fighting Views Goes On Forgiveness Bygones

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works