#in

The future belongs to those who believe in theirself and follow their dreams. ↗

— Marisol Gomez

#dreams

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#kindness #magic #present

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#present

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#time #present

We all use the future to escape the present. ↗

— John Green

#present

He taught me there's a place on a man's back where, if you sink a blade in, you can pierce his heart and sever his spine, all at once,' Sebastian had said. 'I guess we got the same birthday present that year, big brother,' Jace thought. 'Didn't we? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-glass #herondale #jace #lightwood #morganstern

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#giving #present

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#feeling #giving #gratitude #like #present

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#davita #harp #past #planning #potok

As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean: "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it." "What’s that?" Anna asked. "Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time. ↗

— John Green

#tfios #the-fault-in-our-stars #water