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Present Quotes by Thomas Merton
- If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in…
- The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
- The reality that is present to us and in us: call it being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen…
- Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that…
- Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it…
- Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives…
- You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities…
- God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well,…
- You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it's all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and…
More Present Quotes
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- 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
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. — Roger Babson
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon