Present Quotes

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A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity… — Lyndon B. Johnson
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come;… — Charles Caleb Colton
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters… — Alvin Toffler
My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land… — Bharati Mukherjee
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good… — Thomas Brooks
The right procedure: You begin at the wrong end if you first dispute about your election. Prove your conversion, and then never doubt your election.… — Joseph Alleine
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence.... From the hour the Pilgrims… — George Washington
It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather… — Paul Davies
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during… — Ilya Prigogine
Jesus heals your PAST, is your very PRESENT help and takes care of your FUTURE. — Joseph Prince
When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake.… — Rajneesh
If meditation is going rightly, deep, you will feel transformed throughout the whole day. A subtle contentment will be present every moment. With whatsoever you… — Rajneesh
Buddha says this is how one should be - no desire, because all desires are futile. They are about the future; life is in the… — Rajneesh
Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there is no mind… — Rajneesh
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness.… — Rajneesh
All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you,… — Rajneesh
The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response… — Rajneesh
Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt… — Henri Nouwen
Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a… — Eckhart Tolle

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