#sent

Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#harness #help #inspirational #laugh #living-in-the-present

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons. ↗

— Kage Baker

#history #human-experience #past-and-future #past-and-present #science-fiction

We’re so caught up in trying to do everything, experience all the essential things, not miss out on anything important...We can’t read all the good books, watch all the good films, go to all the best cities in the world, try all the best restaurants, meet all the great people...Life is better when we don’t try to do everything. Learn to enjoy the slice of life you experience, and life turns out to be wonderful. ↗

— Leo Babauta

#experience

The way you live each day is a sentence in the story of your life. Every day, you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#each-day #life #sentence #story #experience

Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating. ↗

— Richard Neville

#marijuana #pleasent #life

I understood that the attachment to myself and my image ... was actually taking me away from my self, away from this wonderful opportunity to just sit, just breathe, just feel the warm animal of my body, just feel the soft, sultry heat of June. The density of my attachment was making it impossible for me to have a truly satisfying experience of life in my body just as it was in the moment. When under the sway of this obsession, my mind's attention was always in the fantasized future, or the idealized or devalued past - never present to the reality of the moment. ↗

— Stephen Cope

#living-in-the-present #yoga #experience

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#future #present #progress #faith

There are many lay people and scholars alike, both with and without the Muslim community, who feel that the pure orthodox Islam of the fundamentalists could never survive outside the context of its seventh-century Arabian origins. Apply twenty-first-century science, logic, or humanistic reasoning to it and it falls apart. They believe this is why Islam has always relied so heavily on the threat of death. Question Islam, malign Islam, or leave Islam and you will be killed. It is a totalitarian modus operandi that silences all dissent and examination, thereby protecting the faith from ever having to defend itself. ↗

— Brad Thor

#humanism #islam #death

‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest. ↗

— Elsa Tamez

#dissent #faith #god #protest #faith

You just tell me when and where, and not only will I not be there, but I’ll also be late. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #late #stood-up #tardy