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Ralph Waldo Emerson2 quotes
With the Past as past I have nothing to do, nor with the Future as future. I live now. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1839I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1837Alan Watts1 quote
Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality. — Alan Watts · 1957Albert Camus1 quote
I'll tell you a big secret mon cher. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. — Albert Camus · 1956Albert Einstein1 quote
I never think of the future—it comes soon enough. — Albert Einstein · 1930Allen Saunders1 quote
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. — Allen Saunders · 1957Bill Murray1 quote
I'm a little bit, you know, seat of my pants, I try to be alert and available... For life to happen to you. We're living this life, we’re in this life, and if you’re not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it... But if you’re available, then life gets huge... You're really living it. — Bill Murray · 2014Boris Pasternak1 quote
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. — Boris Pasternak · 1958Dr. Seuss1 quote
And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked. — Dr. Seuss · 1939Garth Algar1 quote
Live in the now. — Garth Algar · 1992Gautama Buddha1 quote
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Gautama Buddha · 511 BCHenry David Thoreau1 quote
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. — Henry David Thoreau · 1853Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1 quote
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,—act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838Lewis Thomas1 quote
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. — Lewis Thomas · 1978Michel de Montaigne1 quote
Those who have likened our life to a dream were more right, by chance, than they realized. We are awake while sleeping, and waking sleep. — Michel de Montaigne · 1580Roger Miller1 quote
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet. — Roger Miller · 1973Thomas Mann1 quote
Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment. — Thomas Mann · 1939