This world is so wonderful, so Unthinkable and…

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis

The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo…

— Tim Lebbon

... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the…

— Paul Klee

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers…

— Stanley Schmidt

If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall…

— Alan Watts

It looks like half the enjoyment is just having Heaven in our hearts and Heaven in our Homes, feeling Heaven in our bodies in…

— David Berg

Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now.

— Hilde Domin

In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea…

— Anonymous

Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to…

— Dalai Lama

For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the…

— Rob Bell

For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh