presenting, the present. moment. now.

"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope." Frank Lloyd Wright, The Living City

"Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is." Osho, Zen: The Path of Paradox

"Today is the first and last day of forever." Stephenie Meyer, Breaking

"Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now." Christopher Paolini, Eldest

"The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo because they are gone, or which hold no import because they are yet to happen. What is important is the here and now, and now, and now, and the spaces between the nows." Tim Lebbon, Face

"Tomorrow gives a beck'ning hand--
I turn my face away;
I'll not invite her to my home--
I only love Today."
Ardelia Cotton Barton, "Today"

"We should not expect all the present to be as good as the best of the past." Lewis F. Korns, Thoughts

"The present is the food of the future." Edward Counsel, Maxims

quotes courtesy of: www.notable-quotes.com

oh happy day

"God is love. Therefore love. Without distinction, without
calculation, without procrastination, love." Henry Drummond

"We become truly personal by loving God and by loving other
humans...in it's deepest sense, love is the life, the energy, of the
Creator in us." Kallistos Ware

refreshed

sometimes i find a refreshing read...

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
William Shakespeare


"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." Howard Zinn

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