Present Quotes

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This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of… — Richard Louv
Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present. — Fausto Cercignani
Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over the… — Susan Griffin
We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities… — Thomas Traherne
We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our… — A.S.A. Harrison
The experience youâ€™ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in… — A.S.A. Harrison
The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it youre presumed to… — Robert M. Pirsig
A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it. — Herbert V. Prochnow
If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw… — Eric Maisel
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight… — John Desmond Bernal
By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision. — Robert Henri
I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict… — Jim Henson
The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer… — Isak Dinesen
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will… — Abdul Kalam
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model. — Charles Kettering
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us. — Teresa of Avila
The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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