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RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.


Ambrose Bierce

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Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
OSCAR WILDE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
OSCAR WILDE One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
JONATHAN HARNISCH The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
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FRANCINE RIVERS We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
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C. JOYBELL C. Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.
MINNESOTA FATS We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
AMIT RAY And it just becomes like a little rack of lamb, ... A rack of rabbit.
THOMAS KELLER I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by jud...
ELIHU ROOT Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing ge...
MARK UDALL Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fu...
ROY BENNETT A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY 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 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 If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar ...
H. P. LOVECRAFT It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA The way is yours for the asking - the way is yours for the taking. The way is as it should be.
KAREN HACKEL Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In...
MAJID KAZMI I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying abo...
ROY BENNETT No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON Abiding does not mean sitting idly by. It means resting in the work, resting in the moment, resting ...
ROBIN BERTRAM Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.” ~ Ambrose ...
J.J. MCAVOY This is a plug-and-play appliance that you can put up in the rack.
JACK SEBBAG Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit.
MICHAEL KORS Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of t...
MANDY HALE The first rack felt real good and I thought I was going to come out a little flat and have to pick i...
LAUREN FIRICH Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
JOHN KUYPERS That table was attached to the wall. The vehicle had diesel in the rack in cans. It erupted, spewed ...
JOYCE BLAZIER As a golfer, you feel like you're perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it's very diffic...
BEN CRENSHAW Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.
GINA GREENLEE I have better understanding how difficult and complex life can be, fortunately I know when not to ta...
SHELLIE PALMER Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 Faith is not so much belief about Go...
FREDERICK WARD KATES Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.
AMIT RAY That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you.
H.L. DAVIS Life doesn't happen to you, it happens FROM you.
GREGG KORROL Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
�...
FRANCINE RIVERS Off the rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anyone.
FRANCOISE GIROUD Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.
FRANÇOISE GIROUD When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced
JOHN M SHEEHAN An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right...
ROY BENNETT May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
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GERMANY KENT Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM I want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive.
JASON GRAY I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianis...
DICK CAVETT Those who worry stumble long The Way.
Those who pray have no time to stray.
ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
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AMBROSE BIERCE Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the wor...
AMBROSE BIERCE Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
AMBROSE BIERCE Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
AMBROSE BIERCE Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities ...
AMBROSE BIERCE Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the...
AMBROSE BIERCE Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
AMBROSE BIERCE Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction ...
AMBROSE BIERCE The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
AMBROSE BIERCE TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeab...
AMBROSE BIERCE Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
AMBROSE BIERCE Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
AMBROSE BIERCE Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and wa...
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