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1 " At any given moment the choice to be happy is present- we just have to choose to be happy. "
― Steve Maraboli , Life, the Truth, and Being Free
2 " For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evalua tion of the interrelationships among the components of the present- day society. "
― Claude Lévi-Strauss , Structural Anthropology
3 " Of course, the abolition of Hell meant that such thoughts were now the merest fantasy. Isobel was agnostic as to what, if anything, lay in store for us after this life; that there was a world of spirit seemed to her to be a possibility that we should not exclude. Consciousness was an elusive entity about which we knew very little, other than that it came into existence when certain conditions were present- a sufficient mass of brain cells operating in a particular way. But could we really say much more than that about where it was located & whether it could survive in other conditions? The fact that a plant grew in one place did not mean that it could not grow in another. And if something lay behind this consciousness, orchestrated it & and the conditions that produced it, then why should we not call this something God? "
― Alexander McCall Smith , The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday (Isabel Dalhousie, #5)
4 " Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented. "
― Philip G. Zimbardo
