Present Quotes
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The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.
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You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.
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Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.
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Once I accidentally left my passport in Nice, France, when I was on my way to Prague. Upon arriving in Vienna, after taking an overnight, and being asked to present my travel documents and realizing I forgot them at the hotel, they kicked me off the train and sent me back!
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What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.
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Love requires you to be physically and emotionally present. It also requires that you slow down.
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What I want in my career is different to what I wanted when I was 21. It's got to be something that keeps my family together, that allows me to be present in their lives.
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Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status? Do you want to become a better and more beautiful person than you are today? Would you like to be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine humility? Then start dreaming! It's possible! You can become the person you have always wanted to be!
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When we study history we obtain a more profound insight into human nature by instituting a comparison between the present and former states of society.
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The object of the present volume is to point out the effects and the advantages which arise from the use of tools and machines ;-to endeavour to classify their modes of action ;-and to trace both the causes and the consequences of applying machinery to supersede the skill and power of the human arm.
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Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
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We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them.
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Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.
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Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution.
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As for the notion that everything has already been said, maybe it has, but life is like meatloaf: there are so many different ways to present it.
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What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present
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I can't really do anything about the past and all I can do is just embrace the future and try to make the most of the present. So I'm really trying to do that and doing my best every day.
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Meteorologists have the right perspective. They ground themselves in the current conditions (today’s highs/lows). They briefly acknowledge significant events of the past (record temps). And they keep an eye on the future (five-day forecast). Honor your past accomplishments, live in the present moment, and look to the future.
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By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.
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Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
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I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.
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I try to be mindful in my daily life, trying to stay more present and have more intention. It keeps me calm, and I feel less whipped about by my emotions.
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Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.
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Being traumatized is not just an issue of being stuck in the past; it is just as much a problem of not being fully alive in the present.
