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If Mystery had a Mother, the voice I then heard would be hers:
“Behold, Hayato, my fascination with humanity: the esthetic of their lostness.
Their future rushes at them. They have a single instant, as it flashes by,
to change it into a comprehensible, acceptable, and palatable past.
Instant by instant, tomorrow blinks in their grasp. If they do not seize without holding,
shape without breaking, that continuity of moments, they leave nothing behind.
Their object, all their objects, is to mold and print themselves on those single bits of future that,
in the touching, ages into swiftly vanishing yesterdays.”
- Empress of Night and Darkness
"The present time has one advantage
over
every other -
It is our own.
Happiness is not something
you postpone for
the future:
It is something you design
for the present.
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind
on the present moment...
else you will die
not having lived at all."
- Ingrid Durtz
WHAT DO YOU THINK
OF
LIVING IN THE NOW?
I try to be mindful and live in the present. But it is important to draw lessons from the past and work for the future as well.
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that 'Now' is a gift, therefore it is called 'present'!
Great quotes!
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