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“I ride the singular point of the present until the future is past tense.”
― Rashaad Bell

“Live and love to the fullest, waste nothing, take nothing for granted.”
― Monica Millard, Children of the Gods

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
― Rumi

“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
― James Baldwin

“The devil never gave a gift for free.”
― Tananarive Due, Blood Colony

“Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you.”
― Tananarive Due, Blood Colony

“Bravery come with confidence in one's own abilities.”
― L.A. Banks

“the gift given for no reason is the purest gift of all.”
― L.A. Banks, Shadow Walker

“Every shut eye ain't sleep. If you elect to allow some things to slide, a greater good will come of it.”
― L.A. Banks, Shadow Walker

“Stretch your mind past the emotion and search for the lesson.”
― L.A. Banks, Shadow Walker

“Destiny sends us on journeys and to places that may seem to be one thing when we begin, only to show themselves as a fantastic surprise later.”
― L.A. Banks, Shadow Walker

“We can all be better than we've heretofore dreamed. Our potential is unlimited as long as we're not functioning from the negative.”
― L.A. Banks, Shadow Walker

“And ev'ry tear you cry's a smile you ain't never gon' get back.”
― Casey Robbins, The Color of the Soul

“I know when God gives us somethin' good in this world we gotta hold on long as we can.”
― Casey Robbins, The Color of the Soul

“We cain't keep lookin' back at out losses. We gotta keep marchin' down that road ahead to the Promised Land. We gotta give up our sorrows to make way for our joys.”
― Casey Robbins, The Color of the Soul

“We don't need much 'round here. Just some food and water. And each other. Really that all that we ever need. And God of course.”
― Casey Robbins, The Color of the Soul

“Sometimes we got to run to get to where the good Lawd need us to go. An' sometimes we got to just sit there an' listen for Him to tell us what to do, even if that mean we gotta suffer a li'l while.”
― Casey Robbins, The Color of the Soul

“Gotta always remember where you came from and how you got brought to where you is now. They call it deliverance.”
― Casey Robbins, The Color of the Soul

“Besides, the only color God see in any of us is the color of our soul.”
― Casey Robbins, The Color of the Soul

“Be happy 'cause happy ain't about what you got, it's about what you do with what you got.”
― Casey Robbins, The Color of the Soul

“God already knows what ya want and He knows what's best for ya. Sometimes they ain't the same thing.”
― Casey Robbins, The Color of the Soul

“Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“Even if you think you're doing well and have it all figured out, there is a voice you will always inevitably hear at some point which nags at you and says "but wait..." Don't ever dismiss it, listen to what it has to say. Life will never be close enough to perfect, and listening to that voice means stepping outside of yourself and considering your own wrongdoings and flaws.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye