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• Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.

  Mary Balogh

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• Our attention is in the moment; we are not afraid of the future or ashamed of the past.

  José Luis Ruiz

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  How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Anne Frank

  Topics in Life, Service

  Tags in World, Now, Change/Growth, Wonderful, Procrastination, Philosophy
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  Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

  Lillian Dickson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Now, Impermanence, Choice, Choosing

• To change one’s life:
  1. Start immediately.
  2. Do it flamboyantly.
  3. No exceptions.

  William James

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Now, Change/Growth, Enthusiasm

• Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler’s bet: it’s an act, an intention, a project, something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of time and right into Eternity, which is not theend of time or a whole lot of time or unending time, but timelessness, the old Eternal Now.

  Joanna Russ

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  Tags in Now, Faith, Hope

• History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.

  Henry Ford

  Topics in History

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• Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

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• I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

  Tony Robbins

  Topics in Failure, Life, Wisdom

  Tags in Now, Enjoy

• The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

  Anaïs Nin

  Topics in Dream, Inspirational

  Tags in Now, Wonder

• We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

  Anaïs Nin

  Topics in Future, Life

  Tags in Now, Change/Growth, Diversity, Chaos, Maturity

• Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. Stand in your own dooryard and you have eight thousand miles of solid ground beneath you, and all the sidereal splendors overhead.

  John Burroughs

  Topics in Life, Opportunity

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  Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

  Wayne Dyer

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  Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Life, Memory

  Tags in Now, Forwards

• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Topics in Humor, Love

  Tags in Now, Then, Chocolate, Need, Hurt, Little

• My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate — that’s my philosophy.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Now, Questions, Philosophy, Credo, Creed

• The beginning is always today.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

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  Go for it now. The future is no promised now.

  Unknown

  Topics in Future

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• From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.

  Richard Foreman

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  Tags in Now, Everything, Through