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Dr. Seuss - "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to
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  kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to
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  you by the Great News Podcast because good news should be
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  heard. Link is in the show notes.
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  Today's quote comes from Theodore Suss Giesel, the man
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  the world simply knows as Doctor Seuss.
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  He's best known for The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham,
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  but he was also capable of extraordinary wisdom that had
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  nothing to do with rhyming or whimsy.
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  He once wrote sometimes you will never know the value of a moment
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  until it becomes a memory. That word sometimes is doing
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  quiet but important work at the start of this quote.
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  Not always. Sometimes, because some moments
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  we recognize as precious while they're happening, like a
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  wedding, a birth, a long-awaited achievement.
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  We know in real time that we want to remember this.
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  But Doctor Seuss is pointing at the other kind of moment, the
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  ordinary moment. A regular Tuesday, the
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  unremarkable dinner, the conversation that had no agenda,
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  the afternoon that felt like nothing special at all.
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  The specific moments we treasure most were often nothing out of
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  the ordinary when they actually took place.
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  We never would have guessed that one day they'd become as
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  important as they have. And here's what makes that both
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  beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.
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  You cannot always know which moments those will be while
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  you're in them. The last time you laughed with
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  someone you loved, before everything changed.
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  The ordinary morning that turned out to be that last one of its
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  kind, The version of your child at a particular age that you
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  didn't realize you'd miss until it was already gone.
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  This quote carries a message about the impermanence of life,
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  a reminder that time is fleeting and that the moments we take for
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  granted may eventually become the moments we most long to
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  revisit. This isn't a call to nostalgia.
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  It's a call to presence, to slow down just enough to actually
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  inhabit the moment you're in. Not because you know it will be
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  precious, but precisely because you can't know yet.
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  The value is being created right now, you just won't see it until
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  later. Looking back, some of the
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  moments I'm most grateful for were the ones I nearly sleepwalk
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  through conversations. I was half present for ordinary
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  evenings. I was too distracted to notice
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  when the kids were babies. I was exhausted, and it was only
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  later that I understood what they had actually been worth.
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  Doctor Seuss is asking us to close that gap, not to wait for
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  the memory to reveal the value, but to bring a little of that
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  future appreciation back to the present where you can actually
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  do something with it. So here's the question.
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  What's happening in your life right now?
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  Something ordinary, unremarkable, easy to overlook
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  that you might one day look back as one of the moments that
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  mattered most because it's already becoming a memory.
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  Every second that passes is moving from now into then.
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  The question is whether you were present enough to feel its value
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  while it was still here. Pay attention.
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  Some of this is precious. You just don't know which parts
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  yet. That's it for today.
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  I'm Anna McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.