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"With the past I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now."
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"You must do much work to fulfill your dream."
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Personal Development

"This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best."
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"The only moment we need in our lives, is the moment right now as we don't know what tomorrow may bring or the destruction of your world."
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"The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable."
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"Entirely taken up by the present, I could remember nothing; I had no distinct notion of myself as a person, nor had I the least idea of what had just happened to me. I did not know who I was, nor where I was; I felt neither pain, fear, nor anxiety. I watched my blood flowing as I might have watched a stream, without even thinking that the blood had anything to do with me. I felt throughout my whole being such a wonderful calm, that whenever I recall this feeling I can find nothing to compare with it in all the pleasures that stir our lives."
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"The negative feelings of anger, bitterness, guilt, regret, resentment, and sadness represent a failure of a person to accept that the past is an event that holds no power over the present. The thought that the future will bring salvation is an illusion. We must exist in the present."
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"What we are at this very moment is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment. And the step that you take at this moment, will determine your future. Past and future both require a functional mind to exist. Only the present prevails independent of mind " independent of life."
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"If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man."
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Personal Development

"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."
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Explore more quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
Nature

"The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses."
Art

"The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye."
Spirit

"With the past I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now."
Present

"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant."
Inspirational

"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
Attitude

"Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories."
Knowledge

"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?"
Nature

"Nature is saturated with deity."
Faith

"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know."
Wisdom
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