There is one thing we can do and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can ... give all our attention to the opportunity before us.
And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.
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Anonymous
When one was full of energy and enthusiasm the world was an apple, the future was way beyond the horizon and only the present was pertinent.
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Jeff Tikari
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Bertolt Brecht
Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.
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Saul Bellow
Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but...
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Margaret Atwood
More Quotes By Mark Van Doren
I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension–the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
For Tolstoy .. . anything that human beings do has its glory.. .. I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.
Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.
There is one thing we can do and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can ... give all our attention to the opportunity before us.
