We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and kind. [...] My grandparents had to live their way out of one world and into another, or into several others, making new out of old the way corals live their reef upward. I am on my grandparents' side. I believe in Time, as they did, and in the life chronological rather than in the life existential. We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins, or used to, and we cannot afford all these abandonings.
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OLDSTER Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA 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 The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. LAUREN KATE These are the days that must happen to you. WALT WHITMAN If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, e... SIMONE ELKELES 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 It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can. KAREN TODD SCARPULLA 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... Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG 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 A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your ... DAN PEARCE We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv... ABIGAIL GEORGE The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of ... ORSON SCOTT CARD Your past, is your past, it has come and gone so stop worrying about it SOTONYE ANGA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI The point is to be in the moment, not miss the moment while trying to capture it. SHERALYN PRATT 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 Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there... ALBERT EINSTEIN Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to... JERRY SPINELLI Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r... THICH NHAT HANH There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Get pass your past, be a presence in your present, and let no one refute your future. JOHNNIE DENT JR. To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE Write to Say something, Say to Make something, Make to Be something. SHASHIDHAR SA We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause ... LUTHER BURBANK Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL Intel has been my second family. It is an amazing company that has changed the way people live their... RENEE JAMES The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people... KARON WADDELL The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and... ROSE MACAULAY 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 Live in the moment. Don’t carry baggage from the past. Put that baggage in a history book and lear... DEBASISH MRIDHA I have better understanding how difficult and complex life can be, fortunately I know when not to ta... SHELLIE PALMER Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Don't grieve over the past, It's all gone! Don't worry about the future, It may never com... MOULOUD BENZADI When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE In the beginning it was all black and white. MAUREEN O'HARA They could play an endless game of hide-and -seek in so many rooms and up and down the halls that in... EUDORA WELTY Sometimes, how others look at it must not be how you should see it! Sometimes, how it means to other... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats and then monkeys, and hund... TERRY PRATCHETT What marriage offers - and what fidelity is meant to protect - is the possibility of moments when wh... WENDELL BERRY Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final RAINER MARIA RILKE 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 You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN Life is beautiful. Live every day in the present. Be grateful for who you are and appreciate the wor... INDEPENDENT ZEN I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. AMIT RAY Expectation kills. Just go with the flow, you might be surprised when something better comes along i... JOYRAM SHAW 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 Giving someone gifts cannot equate to spending quality time with them. Never replace time with thing... KEMI SOGUNLE Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ 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 Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to ... JERRY SPINELLI The Witch 2015, has shown how religion make us, and where does this shit put us. How just by one rel... DEYTH BANGER The Witch 2015, has shown how religion make us, and where does this shit put us. How just by one rel... DEYTH BANGER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS 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... Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON
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MIKE WALLACE It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of menta... NICOLLE WALLACE To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice... IRVING WALLACE I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you ... MIKE WALLACE Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. WALLACE STEVENS A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalt... NICOLLE WALLACE I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her bl... NICOLLE WALLACE We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fan... GEORGE WALLACE There are few things that weigh on a person’s ability to grow and thrive more than insecurity. One... CARLOS WALLACE People spend money they don’t have on clothes and accessories they don’t need to fill a void. No... CARLOS WALLACE Insecurity is a powerful enemy. It forces people to use make-up, plastic surgery, collagen injection... CARLOS WALLACE Happiness will never flourish in a life bereft of optimism. CARLOS WALLACE I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of art... WALLACE SHAWN Um, Larry likes to coach. BEN WALLACE What we focus on every night is going out there and making this thing work and finding ways to win g... BEN WALLACE Whoever wins this is the world real basketball champion. BEN WALLACE Right now, I'm not really thinking about any of that. I'm just out here trying to have fun, play bas... BEN WALLACE It definitely helped our team. I think it helped everybody on our team get better. He played a major... BEN WALLACE He didn't cut it, did he? Good. I like that hair. I'm rolling with him. BEN WALLACE I think our whole team has picked it up. We're getting the ball moved from side to side, forcing tea... BEN WALLACE All that hard work is nothing if we don't continue to play the way we've played. Everybody's focus h... BEN WALLACE They're a struggling team right now, trying to find their identity. I thought last year they had all... BEN WALLACE That's how we've been playing all year. We're not going to panic regardless of what the situation is... BEN WALLACE Employment is improving, or at least stabilizing. ANDREW WALLACE We saw an additional fall this morning after yesterday's dramatic fall, and bond futures touched a n... ANDREW WALLACE We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected. ANDREW WALLACE We're taking our cues from the stock market. Bonds are at a three-month high today [Wednesday]. ANDREW WALLACE The team gave us a really good car despite the little practice time we had but we still don't have t... ANDY WALLACE