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Quotes About Present

we're wedged tight into the accident of our moment in history.
~ Tessa Hadley
Death is an illusion, life is a dream and we are the creator of our own imagination. The present moment is the only moment available to us and is the doorway to all moments.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
There is no point in worry or wonder about worse or better spiritual conditions, although that game is available. You will not be able to rise above your present vibration level to stay until you love the way you are now.
~ Thaddeus Golas
Look to this day,For it is life, the very life of life.In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existencethe bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.For yesterday is but a dreamAnd tomorrow is only a vision,But today well lived makesevery yesterday a dream of happinessand every tomorrow a vision of hope.Look well, therefore to this day,such is the salutation of the dawn.
~ The Sufi
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. The expression of history in things is no other than that of past torment.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
There! you will think this a dreadfully preaching letter! I suppose I have a natural tendency to preach just at present because I am overwhelmed with my work.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Divination is the quest to understand more about the past, present, and future. In other words, Tarot readings are an attempt to understand ourselves better and discover how we might live better in the future.
~ Theresa Francis-Cheung
Don't fall in love with the past, she thought. You don't live there. Now is when you live. "I
~ Theresa Rebeck
There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Smile, breathe and go slowly.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
My actions are my only true belongings.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Life is available only in the present moment.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
~ Thomas Arnold Bennett
For the history of our country during the last hundred and sixty years is eminently the history of physical, of moral, and of intellectual improvement. Those who compare the age on which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in their imagination may talk of degeneracy and decay: but no man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
Prayer is the present remedy for the souls of them that are sick.
~ Thomas Becon
Human personality is created with the restless yearning for communion with the unseen but present personal God (Augustine, Conf. 1.1).
~ Thomas C. Oden
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
~ Thomas Carlyle