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That's all anyone has, and it's always brief, although, of course, some people believe they have a p...

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Paulo CoelhoVeronika Decides to Die

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed i...

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Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expect...

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No, my life is not this precipitous hourthrough which you see me passing at a run.

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Rainer Maria RilkePoems from the Book of Hours

You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday ...

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Ray BradburyA Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels li...

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Ruth OzekiA Tale for the Time Being

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

Now is the time to make good use of time.Today is the day to begin a perfect day.

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Sri ChinmoyMeditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction

Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that a...

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The first question they ask is: "Why was he eternally surprised?"And they were told: "Wen considered...

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attr...

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It's cool now to play golf.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House an...

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A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

A man's life is his whole life, not the last glimmering snuff of the candle; and this, I say, is con...

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He understands the texture and meaning of the visible universe, and 'sees into the life of things,' ...

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that f...

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No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is...

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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.

Beautify your breath – beautify your life.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the ...

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Mindfulness is not a mechanical process. It is developing a very gentle, kind, and creative awarenes...

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but sipping the nectar of the moment.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Moment is a flower. Mindfulness is sipping the nectar of that flower.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afra...

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If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't...

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Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they ...

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Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poet...

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This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.

I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't spea...

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You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

It's time to get healed. It's time to confess. Falling for the bait doesn't make you the worst perso...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being pre...

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Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity...

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it ...

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Dennis PotterSeeing the Blossom: Two Interviews and a Lecture

Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.

So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt ho...

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I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singin...

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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once am...

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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love ...

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We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with...

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Friedrich NietzscheTwilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for...

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This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Any day stands equal to the rest.

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should li...

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not ...

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If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not...

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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience t...

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Joseph CampbellThou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial ...

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This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in s...

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The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; ...

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The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and...

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Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of cor...

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We do not covet one inch of Lebanese territory, and the basis for the peace treaty between our two c...

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If not me, who? And if not now, when?

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot ...

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I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and the...

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