Nilakanta Sri Ram Quotes

What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.

Nilakanta Sri Ram

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• To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Future

• Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Present

• Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • World
  • Energy
  • Present

• The future is keeping you out of the present time.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • Future
  • Present

• I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Job
  • Present

• You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

  

  Sally Field
  • Present
  • Lose
  • Behavior

• When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Present
  • Hero
  • Living

• As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Want
  • Present
  • Welcome

• You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Future
  • Present

• I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Game
  • Know

• International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • May
  • Taken
  • Present

• What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Me

• Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I will offer a prayer to the Trinity, May the Eternal grant me to praise thee! In the present course, dangerous Our work; destruction is a slight impulse of wrath. They reckon of the saints a tribe, King of heaven, may I be eloquent about thee! Before the separation of my soul from my flesh.

  

  Taliesin
  • Work
  • May
  • Soul

• …the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Future
  • Present

• The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Time
  • History
  • Universe

• Two small aisles on each side of this chapel present a touching instance of the equality of the grave; which brings down the oppressor to a level with the oppressed, and mingles the dust of the bitterest enemies together.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Together
  • Small
  • Present

• It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • World
  • House
  • Alone

• It's definitely important to have your mom and family there to back you up and cheering from the stands. You'd love them to come to every big dance and every big game, but sometimes that's not possible.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Country
  • Earth
  • Nice

• If I had to have a favorite chef, I'd probably say I like Guy Fieri.

  

  G. Garvin
  • Guy
  • Ifs
  • Chef

• Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lying
  • Cry
  • Owl

• What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.

  

  Nilakanta Sri Ram
  • Present
  • Perfection
  • Seeks