"If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there."

Presence, Life, Experience, Moment

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"Breathe deeply and remember to love."

Scott Stabile, American Author

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"Developing a commanding presence is essential for leadership and a powerful impact."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"Now is the time to make sure we have the strings of all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present... gratefully."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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"Be aware of your breathing and breathe naturally. This will lead you into unity with the great flow of Life, your true nature."

Ilchi Lee, South Korean Author

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"What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"The past has no power to stop youfrom being present now.Only your grievance aboutthe past can do that.What is grievance?The baggage of oldthought and emotion."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"

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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

Happiness

"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."

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"And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a remembered hill, the smile of a beloved face."

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"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."

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"To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well."

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"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."

Politics

"Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness."

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"In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significance. If it has no such foundations, then we are plunged into madness there is no way out except to find some significance or to desist."

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"No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition."

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