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Quotes About Now

Ahora somos bendecidos y ahora bendecimos al mundo.
~ Helen Schucman
O homem é imortal, a sua salvação é do além», afirmou. «O Estado carece de imortalidade, a sua salvação é de agora ou nunca.»
~ Henry Kissinger
Remember that there is only one important time and is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future. The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
the true life is outside time; it is in the present
~ Leo Tolstoy
Sacred time is always in the Present.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!
~ Dada Vaswani
Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
~ Jack Carroll
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Emperor of Mars: We should be rid of the Earthling now. Count Rochefort: Was your daughter on the ship? Emperor of Mars: Yes. Emperor of Mars: Life is sad.
~ Unknown
Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
~ Jasper Fforde
Keep people reading books, Mum; it helps to reinforce and strengthen the indefinable moments that anchor us in the here and now. Strive for the long now.
~ Jasper Fforde
His recent dungeon experience had persuaded him that opportunites for good things should be grabbed and not postponed. You never knew when you wouldn't be around anymore.
~ Jean Ferris
Anything you like; anything I like... No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us
~ Jean Rhys
Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
~ Jeanette Winterson
every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Come again?' She asked. Yes tomorrow, under the sodium street lights, under the tick of the clock. Under my obligations, my history, my fears, this now. This fizzy, giddy all consuming now. I will not let time lie to me. I will not listen to dead voices or unborn pain. What if? Has no power against 'what if not?' The not of you is unbearable. I must have you....
~ Jeanette Winterson
Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Sometimes it doesn't matter that there was any time before this time. Sometimes it doesn't matter that it's night or day or now or then. Sometimes where you are is enough. It's not that time stops or that it hasn't started. This is time. You are here. This caught moment opening into a lifetime.
~ Jeanette Winterson
They live in the opposite of the past. I said, You mean the future? No, Ry. The opposite of the past is the present. Anyone can live in a past that is gone or a future that does not exist. The opposite of either position is the present.
~ Jeanette Winterson
But I tell you, Henri, that every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
~ Jeanette Winterson
No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
~ Og Mandino
Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.
~ Mark Victor Hansen
Ignore your previous experience and go into the moment. Be Here Now. See what there is to work with right now in creating yourself anew. Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now.
~ Rumi