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Life is a succession of
moments.
To live each one is to succeed.
Corita Kent |
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This--this was what
made life: a moment of quiet,
the water falling in the
fountain, the girl's voice. . .
a moment of captured
beauty. Those who
are truly
wise will never
permit such
moments to escape.
Louis
L'Amour
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Begin doing what you want to do
now. We are not living in eternity.
We
have only this moment, sparkling like a star
in our hand.
. . and
melting like a snowflake. Let us use it
before it is too late.
Marie Beynon Ray
Every second is of infinite value.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Each moment is magical,
precious and complete and will never exist again.
We forget that
now is the moment we are in, that the next one isn't guaranteed.
And if we are blessed with another moment, any joy, creativity or
wisdom
it brings will ensue from the way we live in the present one.
Susan L.
Taylor
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On
Arturo Toscanini's eightieth birthday, someone asked his son, Walter,
what his father ranked as his most important achievement.
The son replied,
"For him there can be no such thing.
Whatever he happens to be doing at
the moment
is the biggest thing in
his life--
whether it is conducting
a symphony or peeling an orange."
Ardis
Whitman
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We do not
remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese |
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Hold to the now, the here,
through which all future plunges to the past.
James Joyce |
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The past
is gone, and I don't know what's coming in the future. It's obvious
that if I want my life to be whole, to
resonate with feeling and integrity
and value and health,
there's only one way I can influence the future: by
owning the present. If I can relate to this
moment with integrity,
and then this moment with
integrity, and then this moment with integrity,
wakefully,
then the sum of that is going to be very different over
time,
over mind moments that stretch out into what we
call a life, than a life
that is lived mostly on
automatic pilot, where we are reacting
and being
mechanical and are therefore somewhat numb.
Jon
Kabat-Zinn
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I live
now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this
moment
and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.
Hugh Prather |
The
passing moment is all we can be sure of;
it is only
common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
W. Somerset Maugham |
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Love
the moment and the energy of the moment
will spread
beyond all boundaries.
Corita Kent |
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Life
is not lost by dying; life is lost minute
by minute, day
by day, in all
the thousand small, uncaring ways.
Stephen Saint Vincent Benet |
To finish the moment, to find the
journey's end
in every step of the road, to live the
greatest
number of good hours, is wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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But what
minutes! Count them by sensation,
and not by calendars,
and each moment is a day.
Benjamin Disraeli |
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It is privilege of living to be . . .
acutely, agonizingly conscious
of the moment that
is
always
present and always passing.
Marya Mannes |
Our latest moment is always our
supreme moment. Five minutes delay
in dinner now
is more
important
than a great sorrow
ten years gone.
Samuel Butler |
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I have the happiness of the
passing moment,
and what more can mortal ask?
George R. Gissing |
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My philosophy is that not
only are you responsible
for your life, but doing your
best at this
moment
puts you in the best place
for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
No
longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
But, grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here.
John
Greenleaf Whittier |
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The
only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn
anything
is in the present moment. But we're continually
missing
our present moments,
almost willfully, by not paying
attention.
Jon
Kabat-Zinn |
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If
we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try;
If we don't, it doesn't matter, we'd better start to die.
Wystan
Hugh Auden |
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Every
person's life lies within the present,
for the past is
spent and done
with,
and the future is uncertain.
Marcus
Antonius |
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A
single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So
our
prospects brighten
on the influx of greater thoughts. We
should
be blessed if we lived in the present always,
and took
advantage of
every accident that befell us, like the grass which
confesses
the
influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and
did not spend our
time in atoning
for the neglect of past opportunities,
which we call
doing our duty. We loiter in winter
while it is already spring.
Henry
David Thoreau |
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Do we
need to make a special effort to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky?
Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it? No, we just enjoy
it.
Each second, each minute of our lives can be like this.
Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine,
the presence of each other, even the sensation of our breathing.
We don't need to go
to China to enjoy the blue sky.
We don't have to travel into the
future to enjoy our breathing.
We can be in touch with these
things right now.
Thich Nhat Hanh |
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To
be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die--to give of
ourselves wholly
to the
demands of the moment, so that we utterly
"disappear." Thoughts of past, present, or
future, of
life and death, of this world and the next,
are transcended in the superabundance
of the now. Time and timelessness coalesce: this is the moment of
eternity. Thus our
every act is a matter
either
of giving life or taking it away. If we perform each act with
total absorption,
we give life to our life. If we do things
half-heartedly, we kill that life.
Philip
Kapleau |
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There is only the
moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this
second is real.
This does not mean you live for the
moment. It means you live in the moment.
Leo Buscaglia |
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What we are talking about is learning to
live in the present moment, in the now.
When you
aren't distracted by your own negative thinking, when you
don't
allow
yourself to get lost in moments that are gone
or yet to come,
you are left with
this moment. This
moment--now--truly is the only moment you have. It
is beautiful
and special. Life is simply a series
of such moments to be experienced
one right
after another.
If you attend to the moment you are in
and stay
connected to your
soul and remain happy,
you will find
that your heart is filled with positive feelings.
Sydney Banks |
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