Here And Now Quotes - Page 3

• Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the here-and-now instead of a hoped-for hereafter, and make every day count in some meaningful way and do something-no matter how small it is-to make the world a better place.

  Michael Shermer

  Meaningful, Atheist, Live Life

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• ... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a precisely opposite situation prevails: biologists have documented a veritable glut of cases for rapid and eminently measurable evolution on timescales of years and decades.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Years, Opposites, Facts

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• The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Past, Enemy

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• Eternity will be wonderful, but there is one thing heaven will not contain, and that is the call, the possibility, and the privilege of living a supernatural life here and now by faith, before we meet Jesus face to face.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Jesus, Heaven

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• To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

  Angela Carter

  Literature, Pins, Hypothesis

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• Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

  Henry Miller

  Rip, Character, Plot

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• In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.

  Thomas Frank

  Bankers, Bonus, Mortgage

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• This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Unconditional Love, Poverty

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• Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.

  Janet Morris

  Long Ago, Soul, Embodiment

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• That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

  Graham Swift

  Space, Water, Tissues

  1983 Waterland, ch.8.

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• This is our one and only chance at mortal life-here and now. The longer we live, the greater is our realization that it is brief. Opportunities come, and then they are gone. I believe that among the greatest lessons we are to learn in this short sojourn upon the earth are lessons that help us distinguish between what is important and what is not. I plead with you not to let those most important things pass you by. As you plan for that illusive, nonexistent future when you will have time to do all that you want to do. Instead, find you in the journey now.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Believe, Opportunity, Journey

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Jun 16, 2016

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• People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Happiness, Happy, Children

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• Billy Graham is for the hereafter. I'm for the here and now.

  Jack LaLanne

  Hereafter

  "Growing Bolder: Jack LaLanne, The Father of Compressed Morbidity" by Marc Middleton, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2011.

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• It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking, Years, Forever

  "Why the essential collection Bradbury Stories explains how to live forever" by Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2013.

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• We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the result of the Word of God. We can experience the return of the Word of God in the here and now, the perpetual return of the actual, living, indisputable Word of God that makes possible the act of witnessing, but we should never think of the Bible as any sort of talisman or oracle constantly at our disposal that we need only open and read to be in relation to the Word of God and God Himself.

  Jacques Ellul

  Bible, Biblical, Thinking

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• Wolf! Right here and now!

  Peter Straub

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• If we live in the here and now, each moment is a surprise, every instant a new wonder. But it often fails to work this way. Onto the present we superimpose our expectations and opinions, based on the past or future. We meet someone, and we already anticipate what he/she will be like and what they will say.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Past, Expectations, Way

  Piero Ferrucci (2007). “The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life--Tenth Anniversary Edition”, p.105, Penguin

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• God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  God, Letting Go, Dream

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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• What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Reality, Men, Thinking

  Hans-Georg Gadamer (2013). “Truth and Method”, p.35, A&C Black

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• I rejoice in the bounty of God, constantly manifesting as overflowing supply here and now.

  Catherine Ponder

  Rejoice, Manifest, Bounty

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• Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Magic Realism, Fantasy

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• And you wish to protect a beautiful princess, with whom you have fallen in love. But do you understand how dire the situation is? He life and the lives of her sisters are hanging in the balance. You yourself risk death if you choose this path." "I don't care," Oliver said. He stood up and faced the bishop. "I don't care! I love Petunia, and this is what I'm choosing, right here and now.

  Jessica Day George

  Beautiful, Princess, Risk

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• Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them without trial, signed legislation that gave torture impunity, and spied on their citizens, just as Obama has. It isn't a question of what has been done that Hitler did. It's what does every dictator do, on the left or the right, that is being done here and now.

  Naomi Wolf

  People, Doe, Citizens

  "Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?". Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.alternet.org. March 29, 2010.

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• There is no heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. Here and now is our day of torment! Here and now is our day of joy! Here and now is our opportunity! Choose ye this day, this hour, for no redeemer liveth!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Opportunity, Heaven, Joy

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• The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.

  Ilchi Lee

  Keys, Meditation, Hundred

  Ilchi Lee (2005). “Human Technology: A Toolkit for Authentic Living”, p.114, Healing Society

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