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Present Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
- A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.
- Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with…
- To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade…
- The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and…
More Present Quotes
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of… — Dalai Lama
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt