#resent

Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future. ↗

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#living-in-the-present #the-future #the-past-cannot-be-altered #inspirational

Time… Once it’s gone, it belongs to the past. We do not hold on to the now, and We do not treasure the future… We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is too late. Until it comes no more. ↗

— Michelle Horst

#books #future #inspirational #life-and-living #present

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#inspirational #life #present #unsourced #inspirational

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ↗

— Aristotle

#aim #appearance #inward #outward #outward appearance

Love holds no expectation on what you will be, it simply values who you are. ↗

— E'yen A. Gardner

#identity #inspirational #love #love-yourself #now

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#appreciate #cannot #caught #changing #correctly

If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#concept #defense #form #freedom #grasp

Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#extraordinary #northern #presents #rights #situation

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

#everyday #everyday people #going #i #i think

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives. ↗

— John Bright

#elect #equal #franchise #gives #itself