Present Quotes

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The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered of enabling us… — Unknown Author
No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it on the same… — Unknown Author
Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has… — Alexander Lowen
Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core… — David Hawkins
The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others… — Adi Da
It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Silence is Golden; it has divine power and immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to… — Eckhart Tolle
Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one… — Eckhart Tolle
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers… — Pope John Paul II
We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives. — Solanus Casey
Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a… — Madeleine L'Engle
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present — Mahatma Gandhi
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles,… — Oscar Wilde
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live… — Gautama Buddha
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course,… — Heinrich Heine
Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the… — Noam Chomsky
One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for… — Dale Carnegie
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent… — R. Buckminster Fuller
We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs. — Robert Grudin
The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present… — Ken Wilber
We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we… — Alan Watts
By losing present time, we lose all time. — William Gurney Benham
We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house,… — Nhat Hanh

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