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“Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?”
― Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

“A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.”
― Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

“There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.”
― Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

“There is more to the world than that which we humans have created.”
― Stephen Mumford, Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction

“we should instead substitute a simple notion of existence and allow that things come into and go out of existence. When present, they are real. After that, they are not.”
― Stephen Mumford, Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Man is what he believes.”
― Anton Chekhov