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• There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

  Oscar Wilde

  Work, Men, Numbers

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.437, University of Chicago Press

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• A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Book, Judgement

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.132, Open Road Media

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• We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives.

  Solanus Casey

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Future, Men

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.336

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• The most important decision you'll ever make is how to spend the present moment !

  Gaurav Dagaonkar

  Life, Decision, Important

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• We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We'll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century with dreams.

  Hideo Kojima

  Dream, Moving, Past

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• Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bare it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life, Somewhere Else, Understanding

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• We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment. It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown we call the future. Thinking about it almost makes you breathless.

  Alan Watts

  Time, Past, Thinking

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• I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

  John Keats

  Sexy, Sensual, Moments

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.390, Harvard University Press

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• Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred, and that we should make of each moment a sacrament. Were we to do this we would think of the entire world as diffused with holiness. Wherever we might be would be a holy place for us, and we would see the holy, even sainthood, in everyone we encounter.

  M. Scott Peck

  Life, Thinking, Catholic

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• No matter how difficult your situation is, you can get through it if you don't look too far into the future, and focus on the present moment. You can get through anything one day at a time.

  Bob Parsons

  Focus, One Day At A Time, Looks

  "Parsons' Rules" by Mercenary Trader, www.businessinsider.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mindfulness, Welcome, Moments

  Twitter post from Mar 15, 2010

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• It's about feeling alive in the moment because your adrenaline is going, your thinking about that present moment, you're not somewhere else, you're not thinking about what's going to happen 10 minutes from now, and that's the reason why I love fighting, it's when I'm in there. I feel free, I feel like there's no other place I want t be. I can't even think of anything beyond that second. That's why I'm drawn to the fight, because I love the presence of it, where it brings me mentally, it's the purest thing for me.

  Rashad Evans

  Fighting, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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• In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love You, Mindfulness, Innocence

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• Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mindfulness, Doorways, Window

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• Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

  Deepak Chopra

  Desire, Mindfulness, Moments

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• As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...

  Michael Gurian

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Children

  Michael Gurian (2006). “The Wonder of Boys”, p.199, Penguin

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• The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drama, Play, Literature

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.70, Wordsworth Editions

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• Give yourself a gift: the present moment.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Giving, Moments

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.110, Modern Library

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• Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer discretion and discernment for our past with a broad spectrum of forgiveness. As for our present moment, delight. And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Memories, Dedication, Past

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• A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.

  R. D. Laing

  Past, Thinking, Missing

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• If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. I will always be dragged into the future, never able to live in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Hands, Together

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• More than anything else, judgment will take you out of the present moment. It will take you out of Oneness into separation. Whenever judgment arises within you, just notice it. Acknowledge it. Confess it. It is just an energy arising within you. Do not judge it or try to get rid of it. Just bring it to consciousness with love, acceptance and compassion. In this way, judgment will be transformed into love.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Acceptance, Compassion, Oneness

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• It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

  Charles de Lint

  Inspirational, Life, Kindness

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• The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Greatness, Ideas

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.197, Penguin

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