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In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.


Maya Angelou

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RICHARD CARLSON Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.
GINA GREENLEE To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
JOHN KUYPERS Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Divorce the past to marry the present and be blessed with a lovely child of future.
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SISI MODISE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY 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 The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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LAUREL TRUE When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
SUN TZU Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.
RICHIE NORTON We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
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GAUTAMA BUDDHA Letting go doesn’t just mean letting go of the past, but letting go of an unknown future; and embr...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human be...
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THICH NHAT HANH I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a...
NAJWA ZEBIAN At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of p...
HAROLD BLOOM Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
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LEO STEINBERG Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we t...
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SOLANGE NICOLE There is no greater glory than to die for love.
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MICHEL FOUCAULT Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
AMIT RAY Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
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Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
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ANNE MESSITTE Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The program equips small-budget orchestras with everything they need to gain the confidence and skil...
HENRY FOGEL To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.
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JANET TRINKAUS If you build a wall to separate people, there will be those who find a way around the wall, or over ...
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.
RAFIK HARIRI We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called prese...
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RENUSREE If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best o...
DEAN ACHESON If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best o...
DEAN ACHESON That's certainly under review at the present time.
BILL MISKELL San Francisco at the present time is like the crater of a volcano, around which are camped tens of t...
JACK LONDON We want a deal. They're here. They're engaged. There's no time like the present.
PJ CROWLEY God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON At the present time there is not enough consensus amongst the players about how we can reach this am...
PETER MANDELSON I believe it would be a waste of time to continue with the present application for a reasons excepti...
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AMIT RAY Your time is now. Live in the moment.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON You can miss an experience by obsessing over how to contain it.
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STEVE GOODIER Everything has it's own time and place, Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
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Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
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MAYA ANGELOU I got my own back.
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MAYA ANGELOU I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.'...
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MAYA ANGELOU Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin...
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MAYA ANGELOU Nothing will work unless you do.
MAYA ANGELOU Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
MAYA ANGELOU You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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MAYA ANGELOU Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise...
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When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
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MAYA ANGELOU I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories
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MAYA ANGELOU Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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MAYA ANGELOU When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
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MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
MAYA ANGELOU I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
MAYA ANGELOU I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
MAYA ANGELOU The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
MAYA ANGELOU Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
MAYA ANGELOU One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
MAYA ANGELOU If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y...
MAYA ANGELOU History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki...
MAYA ANGELOU What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
MAYA ANGELOU Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
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