*
I
long, as does every human being, to be at home
wherever I find myself.
-- Maya Angelou
*
There
is never time in the future in which we will
work out our salvation. The challenge is in
the moment; the time is always now.
-- James A.
Baldwin
*
Every
great mistake has a halfway moment, a split
second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
-- Pearl S. Buck
The
secret of health for both mind and body is not to
mourn for the past, not to worry about the future,
not to anticipate the future, but to live the present
moment wisely and earnestly.
- Buddha
Be
where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.
- Buddha
*
The
great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise
your own place and hour. Every place is under
the stars, every place is the center of the
world.
~
John Burroughs
*
You
and I are essentially infinite choice-makers.
In every moment of our existence, we are in
that field of all possibilities where we have
access to an infinity of choices.
-- Deepak Chopra
*
"You
can become blind by seeing each day as a similar
one. Each day is a different one, each day brings
a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying
attention to this miracle."
-- Paulo Coelho
*
“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not
some more convenient season. It is today that
our best work can be done and not some future
day or future year. It is today that we fit
ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow.
Today is the seed time, now are the hours of
work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the
playtime.”
-- W. E. B. DuBois
*
I
never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein
*
Learn
from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein
*
With
the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future.
I live now. ~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Finish
each day and be done with it. You have done
what you could; some blunders and absurdities
have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit to be encumbered
with your old nonsense. ~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
*
Each
moment of the year has its own beauty… a picture
which was never seen before and shall never
be seen again. ~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
*
Time
always seems long to the child who is waiting
- for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming
a grownup: long also when he surrenders his
whole soul to each moment of a happy day. -- Dag
Hammarskjöld
*
Every
breath we take, every step we make, can be filled
with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only
to be awake, alive in the present moment.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
Life
can be found only in the present moment. The
past is gone, the future is not yet here, and
if we do not go back to ourselves in the present
moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
*
Working
for peace in the future is to work for peace
in the present moment.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
*
Life
is what happens to you while you're busy making
other plans.
-- John Lennon
*
The
best thing about the future is that it comes
only one day at a time.
-- Abraham Lincoln
*
Every
moment and every event of every man's life on
earth plants something in his soul.
-- Thomas Merton
*
This
is the moment when we must come together to
save this planet.
-- Barack Obama
*
Don't
let yesterday use up too much of today.
-- Will Rogers
*
I try to live my life every day in the present,
and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice
and need.
-- Susan Sarandon
*
Every
person is the right person to act. Every moment
is the right moment to begin.
-- Jonathan Schell
*
Truth
has no special time of its own.
Its hour is now - always.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
*
Set
your sites on where you want to be, but focus
on where you are now, and take each step, moment
by moment. --
Robert Alan Silverstein
The
key to living a 'better world lifestyle' is
to set our sites on where we want to be, but
focus on where we are NOW, and take each step,
moment by moment. The past is past. The future
will come when it comes. We are here in the
present. We can learn from the past. Where we
can, we can try to mend our relationships and
do what we can to create a better world. But
where there is nothing we can do, we have to
let it go. We have to let ourselves live, free
of the burdens of guilt, and regret and anger.
We can plan for the future, but we must live
in the present and let go of anxiety and worries
about what might be.
-- Robert Alan
Silverstein
The
first part of the Answer to the Question of
the 'Meaning of Life' is about the way to truly
Live. And that is to love and be loved by the
people in your life with all your heart, and
to seek to live in the Now – to strive to be
present with them, and remember this mission
and purpose through the struggles and the joy,
and to share together the amazing journey of
life. The second part is to see Life as more
than your own life and your own time. To see
that throughout time, humanity has shared a
vision of ‘peace on earth’. And though it is
an impossible dream, only a life lived in service
to humanity – in honor of this shared goal –
can help to validate the struggles of the 93
billion people who have lived and died, the
7 billion dreams of those alive today, and the
hope of humanity to come. The third is to find
a balance between the two – between living your
individual life to the fullest, while striving
to help humanity evolve to a higher consciousness
of compassion, meaning and purpose.
-- Robert Alan
Silverstein
*
You
must live in the present, launch yourself on
every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
-- Henry David
Thoreau
Why
should we live with such hurry and waste of
life? We are determined to be starved before
we are hungry.
-- Henry David
Thoreau
*
...stop
a moment, cease your work, look around you.
-- Leo Tolstoy
*
If
you have the opportunity to play this game
of life you need to appreciate every moment.
a lot of people don't appreciate the moment
until it's passed.
-- Kanye
West
*
Doing
the best at this moment puts you in the best
place for the next moment.
--
Oprah Winfrey
*
Breathe.
Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment
is the only one you know you have for sure.
-- Oprah Winfrey
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