Living in the present Quote by G.K. Chesterton Download Open image ““To him, even the momentary was momentous.”” — G.K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Living in the present
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“Mine were the actions of a desperate man. Present a defining moment to one and he'll bite every time.” — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
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“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
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No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward.… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
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Living in the present is the way to go. I know firsthand about getting caught up in the hurts of the past and the… — Renee Marino Copy Share Image
