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Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.

Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you’ve lost forever. There is only now.
– Jeanette Winterson

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  2. When character is lost, nothing is lost; when wealth is lost, something is lost; but when health is lost, everything is lost. – Tapan Ghosh
  3. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. – Billy Graham
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  5. For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed. – Jeanette Winterson
  6. the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present – the new chance. – Jeanette Winterson
  7. Well done, my fine fellow out of my womb. What have you gained? Nothing! And oh, what have you lost? Everything! – Jeanette Winterson
  8. I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone. – Jeanette Winterson
  9. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided likemercury then gathered up only at the last moment. – Jeanette Winterson
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  11. The easiest way to steal a man’s wallet is to tell him you’re going to steal his watch. – Leigh Bardugoh
  12. You can steal someone’s work but you can’t steal the experience that he has gained from that work. – Rumman Bin Sadiq
  13. Government should never be able to do anything you can’t do. If you can’t steal from your neighbor, you can’t send the government to steal for you. – Ron Paul
  14. To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral. – Abbie Hoffman
  15. Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that. – VE Schwab
  16. When you let another steal your joy you give them power over you. Don’t let anyone steal your smile – Tammy Johnson
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  18. If you are expressing gratitude then you are in the present moment. If you are in the present moment then you are expressing gratitude. – Matthew Donnelly
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  24. Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets. – Jeanette Winterson
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  30. Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels. – Jeanette Winterson
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  32. You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own. – Jeanette Winterson
  33. I want to touch you.”And if you did touch me, what then?”I would find a language of beginning. – Jeanette Winterson
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  38. I kissed her and forgot death. – Jeanette Winterson
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