Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
Ayn Rand

You can't follow the thread of your life very far before you find “the past” changing. Things that you haven't remembered in years reappear, and things that you've always thought were so turn out to be not so at all. If the past isn't the way you thought it was, then the present isn't, either. Letting go of that present may make it easier to conceive of a new future.
William Bridges, Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes

We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities, and we must think of it, the simplest glimpse of that possibility of goodness. That will be our strength. That has always been our strength.
Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

I've always believed there are moments in our lives which can be defined as a transition between the before and after, between the cause and the effect.
Benjamin X. Wretlind, Castles: A Fictional Memoir of a Girl with Scissors

Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
You in mid-air,
Where are the clowns?
Stephen Sondheim, Send in the Clowns

Send In The Clowns, Frank Sinatra

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