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“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Present continuously becomes past, and by the time we take stock of it we are in another present, consumed with planning the future, which we do on the stepping-stones of the past. The present is never here. We are hopelessly late for consciousness.”
― Antonio Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

“Willpower is just another name for the idea of choosing long-term outcomes rather than short-term ones.”
― António R. Damásio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

“Rituals are, among other things, tools that help us process change. There is so much change in this universe. So many entrances and exits, and ways to mark them, each one astonishing in its own way. Even if we don't see birth or life as a miracle in a theological sense, it's still breathtakingly worthy of celebration.”
― Sasha Sagan