Our memory is like a shop in the window of which there is now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

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"Love is space and time measured with the heart."

- Marcel Proust

Love

"Love is space and time measured by the heart."

- Marcel Proust

Love

"naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May."

- Marcel Proust

Love

"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves."

- Marcel Proust

Transformation

"Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."

- Marcel Proust

Self-awareness

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"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

Reflection

"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

- Tom Lehrer

Reflection

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

Reflection

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

Reflection

"Happy Tuesday! It is a good day to reflect on the week so far and spread happiness."

Reflection