Present Quotes

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The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice… — Alonzo King
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and… — Joseph J. Ellis
The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment.… — Eckhart Tolle
I am kind of prudish and I have very strict standards about how I present myself. But one of the things that I've always stood… — Evangeline Lilly
The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery… — Winston Churchill
Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies . . . our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from… — Deepak Chopra
In Buddhism, we speak of touching Nirvana with our own body, In Christianity, you can also touch the Kingdom of God with your body, right… — Nhat Hanh
The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and… — Karl Jaspers
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial… — Sam Keen
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown… — Giorgos Seferis
What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human? — Paulo Freire
Earth as we know it came into being through its four great components: land, water, air, and life, all interacting in the light and energy… — Thomas Berry
It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it. — Paulo Coelho
There are times when one's life appears to be a stage. People come, people go. They come in order to go, and go with no… — Unknown Author
Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. — Paulo Coelho
Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives. — Pierre Corneille
We will never have repose. The present is perpetual. — Georges Braque
Whatâ€™s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in the present to… — Daniel Gilbert
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future â€” must mediate these things, and have two special… — Hippocrates
A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and… — Charles Darwin

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