I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. — Virginia Woolf

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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. - Golda Meir

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Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up! — Caroline Myss

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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water – Rabindranath Tagore

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Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. - Golda Meir

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I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing. ― Jennifer Elisabeth

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You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! - Golda Meir

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We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.

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