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The courage to live in the present, between time and timelessness. No matter the circumstance, it is where life is found.


R.J. Blizzard

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Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
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HORACE Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
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R.J. GONZALES To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
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JIM GENOVESE 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.
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BEN OAK To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
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DEYTH BANGER Don't grieve over the past,
It's all gone!
Don't worry about the future, It may never com...
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STEVE MARABOLI If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY Here comes Courage! that seized the lion absent, and run away from the present mouse
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ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Boring people live boring lives.
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CASEY STENGEL What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
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JAIME ALLISON PARKER Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life li...
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JACK KORNFIELD Being present is being connected to All Things.
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AKIROQ BROST Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fut...
TONY CAMPOLO Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
JOAN RIVERS The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
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