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. . . commerce dies the moment, and is sick in the degree in which men cannot trust each other.


Henry Ward Beecher

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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. -Henry Ward Beecher.
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which the soul looks out.
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HENRY WARD BEECHER No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."
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HENRY WARD BEECHER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
A.A. MILNE Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
MAYA ANGELOU Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo...
BETTY SMITH Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ...
IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
LAUREN KATE Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to...
JERRY SPINELLI How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact?
PAULA STOKES Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r...
THICH NHAT HANH We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in so...
LEO TOLSTOY Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
WALT WHITMAN You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Forever is composed of nows.
EMILY DICKINSON We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our famili...
MAYA ANGELOU These are the days that must happen to you.
WALT WHITMAN Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to ...
JERRY SPINELLI If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, e...
SIMONE ELKELES The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.
JANET TURPIN MYERS The point is to be in the moment, not miss the moment while trying to capture it.
SHERALYN PRATT As you get to know what takes you away from life, you have more moments throughout your day where yo...
MARY O'MALLEY Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.
STEVE GOODIER An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.
AMIT RAY Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
ECKHART TOLLE Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
RAINER MARIA RILKE Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your...
GENNIFER CHOLDENKO What matters is what we do with the life we have.
CARRIE RYAN She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are...
BILL WATTERSON If there is anything that mortals and immortals share in common, it is that there is nothing of grea...
AARON SANTOS Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA Most men in the ward were now convalescing. To her, "each day the nurse's duties became lighter and ...
MARY ALLSEBROOK Seize the day, then let it go.
MARTY RUBIN In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.
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AMBROSE BIERCE Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily facul...
MAIMONIDES I trust life and live deep bliss and comfort in each moment.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE Mindfulness is living in the moment without judging it.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate...
CARRIE SNOW I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate...
CARRIE P. SNOW We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.
TAMORA PIERCE Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning th...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C. Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you.
H.L. DAVIS The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it...
THOMAS S. MONSON Never let sadness of the past or fear of the future, ruin the happiness in this moment.
BJ MORIN We never know what a day will bring us, but one thing we do know is that every morning we can wake u...
ELLEN K. WOOKEY I don't pay no mind to rules. Seems to me, rules are things made up by scared people too afraid to d...
SUZANNE PALMIERI Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?
GOLDIE HAWN Who is most likely to bother about your happiness? You, yourself. So like yourself, love yourself, c...
EVERSKEPTIC On a motorcycle, I learned to let go of the vast uncertainty and focus instead on what is in front o...
LILY BROOKS-DALTON One action is for now. One time is present. One action shall give up its seat for another. One time ...
AARON SANTOS Your time is now. Live in the moment.
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.
GINA GREENLEE In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
AESCHYLUS Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Get pass your past, be a presence in your present, and let no one refute your future.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
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HENRY WARD BEECHER Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used ri...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himse...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they wo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a h...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
HENRY WARD BEECHER "A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
HENRY WARD BEECHER A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on th...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some hav...
HENRY WARD BEECHER As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden withou...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and wou...
HENRY WARD BEECHER You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 y...
HENRY WARD BEECHER There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
HENRY WARD BEECHER In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things...
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