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• I also live in the present, due to the constraints of the space-time continuum.

  Hank Green

  Space, Constraints, Continuum

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• When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

  John Phillips

  Writing, Character, Past

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• The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present.

  Paul Palnik

  Alive

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• I live in the #‎ present moment.

  Stacy Keibler

  Moments, Present Moment

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• When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sight, Effort, Sound

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• Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future.

  Jonas Eriksson

  Believe, Easier

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• Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Focus, Balance, Might

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• I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Thinking, Style

  "Shirley MacLaine talks about Bernie, Alfred Hitchcock, and Dean Martin". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Past, Reality, Possibility

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

  Francesca Annis

  Regret, Mean, Trying

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• We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

  John Banville

  Past, Thinking, Really Living

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• God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

  Isak Dinesen

  World, Able, Made

  As quoted in obituaries, September 7, 1962.

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• People who are not enjoying their lives in the present have lust for life in the future. Lust for life is always in the future. It is a postponement. They are saying, 'We cannot enjoy today so we will enjoy tomorrow.' They are saying, 'Right this moment we cannot celebrate, so let there be a tomorrow so that we can celebrate.'

  Rajneesh

  People, Lust, Today

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• To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

  Nhat Hanh

  Time, Appreciate, Water

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.1, Parallax Press

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• It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Youth, Measuring Up, Felicity

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• 6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Events, Duration

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.190, Routledge

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• THERE IS NO mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn--or worse, indifference--cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man does not look back. He doesn't look ahead. He lives in the present.

  Jed Rubenfeld

  Pride, Blow, Men

  Jed Rubenfeld (2008). “The Interpretation of Murder”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

  Amy Smart

  Moments, Enjoy, Best Gift

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• Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

  Townes Van Zandt

  Animal, Past, Thinking

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• Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Future, Animal, Trying

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa”, p.132, Shambhala Publications

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• Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.

  Stephen Grosz

  Past, Ideas, Creating

  Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.157, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal act. Contrary to popular belief, a writer is not Prometheus alone on a hill full of fire. We are very arrogant to think we alone have a totally original mind. We are carried on the backs of all the writers who came before us. We live in the present with all the history, ideas, and soda pop of this time. It all gets mixed up in our writing.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Thinking, Fire

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.102, Shambhala Publications

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• We do not have to die to enter the kingdom of Heaven, In fact we have to be fully alive. When we are truly alive we see that the tree is part of Heaven and we are also part of Heaven. The whole universe is conspiring to reveal this to us. Peace is available and when we touch it everything becomes real. We become ourselves, fully alive in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Tree, Heaven

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• The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

  Herman Melville

  Past, Tyrants, Wife

  Herman Melville (2000). “White-jacket, Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.152, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. 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

  Mean, History, Giving

  Interview with Charles N. Wheeler in 'Chicago Tribune' 25 May 1916

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