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Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.


Daisaku Ikeda

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With love and patience, nothing is impossible. -Daisaku Ikeda.
DAISAKU IKEDA We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH My roots are firmly planted in the glory of nature. The soil beneath my feet heartens each step.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON Never let sadness of the past or fear of the future, ruin the happiness in this moment.
BJ MORIN There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu...
KATHLEEN TESSARO Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
AMIT RAY I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In...
MAJID KAZMI Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.
AMIT RAY We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It...
JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY Letting go doesn’t just mean letting go of the past, but letting go of an unknown future; and embr...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
CHARLES LINDBERGH It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon -...
DALE CARNEGIE Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to...
JERRY SPINELLI She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
JOHN KUYPERS Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
DALAI LAMA the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the ...
AMIT RAY ....there are moments in life worth living for. Spring Walking is one of them; my mind frozen in the...
ISABELLA KOLDRAS, POEM SPRING WALKING IN VAUCLUSE HIL. In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threa...
JOHN KUYPERS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way y...
PAULO COELHO The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero...
GRAEME SIMSION This is the secret of happiness that you have been looking for:

If you are moving in the ...
ABRAHAM HICKS All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people...
KARON WADDELL Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpecte...
DAVID LEVITHAN Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.
TIM FARGO You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. With billions of dollars sunk into the soil in southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, ... it's kind ...
ARI KELMAN Seize the day, then let it go.
MARTY RUBIN I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cance...
PATRICK SWAYZE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of peo...
IVOR NOVELLO Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to ...
JERRY SPINELLI I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thin...
NICOLE LYONS If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fu...
ROY BENNETT Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose wh...
IDEASWAR The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.
JANET TURPIN MYERS The egoic mind imagines a problem, and then it imagines a solution. When we get caught up in these t...
GINA LAKE The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.
MARTY RUBIN In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, an...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C. A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fu...
ROY T. BENNETT When life gives you lemons, say cool, what else you got?
CARMEN IN THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af...
MICHAEL STEIN Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted i...
JEAN ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Your dreams and goals are bigger than small minded people or the fears that they harbor. Don’t let...
JAHA KNIGHT And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in ...
BRIAN SCHWEITZER One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We...
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