#resent

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#philosophy #present-moment #mourning

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#cried #empty #nothing #outline #past

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#past #present-moment #life

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#children #enjoy #future #neither #nor

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that. ↗

— Columba Bush

#childhood #i #resents #sad #say

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#front #lie #other #present #some

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#i #i do #important #live #living

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#great #humanist #present #seen #slump

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#australian #confidence #government #i #levels

So often, even when we stop to say a blessing before a meal, we’re mentally preparing to spoon some pasta or potatoes onto our plates. We’re not usually focused on the present moment, simply placing ourselves before our food and entering into the still, slow space where eating is done for eating’s sake and not something we do simply to get to the next thing on our list. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

#faith #food #mindful-eating #mindfulness #present-moment