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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY 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 I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?"
"Because you will never again be able to keep it ...
PAULO COELHO Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham
ARIEL SERAPHINO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
JOHN GREEN Who is most likely to bother about your happiness? You, yourself. So like yourself, love yourself, c...
EVERSKEPTIC Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if th...
J.D. SALINGER All the things that are in the past are in the past.
PABLO SANDOVAL What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s...
JOHN GREEN What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
A.A. MILNE And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur...
JAMES JONES Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
MAYA ANGELOU Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo...
BETTY SMITH Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q...
JOHN GREEN I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw...
J.D. SALINGER Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ...
IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
LAUREN KATE Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end....
DEYTH BANGER Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to...
JERRY SPINELLI How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact?
PAULA STOKES There's no sustenance in the past.
VIOLETTE LEDUC Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r...
THICH NHAT HANH To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
JOHN KUYPERS Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?”
“Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect...
JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ...
JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.”
“Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?”
“Yeah,”...
JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest.
“Hazel Grace. No. I will gran...
JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma...
JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist.
“Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�...
JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.”
“So you...
JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.”
“I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ...
JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.”
Me: “I’m okay.”
Augustus: “Okay.” (...
JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone.
JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu...
J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima
JOHN GREEN But it's your life.
JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round.
JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ...
JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace.
JOHN GREEN you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and...
JOHN GREEN That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt.
JOHN GREEN Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me ...
JOHN GREEN Writing does not resurrect. It buries..
JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q...
JOHN GREEN You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. Bu...
JOHN GREEN So how’s it going?”
“Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?”<...
JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.”
“This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y...
JOHN GREEN Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
JONATHAN HARNISCH Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
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BEN HERBSTER Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
BEN HECHT You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru...
BEN VEREEN Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
BEN JONSON I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri...
BEN KINGSLEY I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
BEN JIPCHO We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv...
BEN ELTON It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,...
BEN BERGOR A good poet's made as well as born.
BEN JOHNSON Art has an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JOHNSON Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the t...
BEN HECHT Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h...
BEN JOHNSTON A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
BEN BECHT Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par...
BEN HECHT