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here and now
«The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.»
Author: Allan Bloom
| About:
Books,
Failure
| Keywords:
enfeebled, enfeebles, fatal, here and now, strengthens, tendency, The Vision
«Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.»
«The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can»
Author: Paul Kurtz
| Keywords:
after death, contrary, creatively, eating, here and now, mysterious, on the contrary, realm, succulent, The Meaning of Life, tree of life
«If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.»
Author: Taisen Deshimaru
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here and now
«Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.»
«I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?»
Author: John Lennon
(Political activist, Singer, Songwriter)
| Keywords:
disprove, disproved, disproving, dragons, exists, Fairies, here and now, myths, nightmares, So I
«I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.»
«Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.»
«Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
absent, appreciation, clock time, dwell on, here and now, masculine, prefers, punctual
