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“When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.”

Wells States Helping Past Spirit Community Fire Alive Response Generosity Fallen Rough Compassionate Proven Rough Times Eagerness Texan Community Spirit

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.”

Needs Art Self Past Alive Letting Go Grievance Younger Self

Author:Gordon Livingston

“When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.”

Way Moments Action Past Worry Alive Hunger Mortals Uncertainty Sage

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“We never had it so good: Every person alive today derives great benefit from comforts and pleasures that were not available in the past. All of the latest technological advances serve us to a remarkable degree. For all this we should be full of appreciation and gratitude.”

Should Persons Today Past Pleasure Alive Gratitude Comfort Degrees Benefits Appreciation Available Remarkable Technological Live For Today Gratitude And Appreciation

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.”

Whole Past Young Clear Alive Awareness Clean Whole Life Arise Dust Burning Smoke Flames Dropping

Author:Rajneesh

“Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.”

Mind Ideas Past Turns Fantasy Alive Shapes Creating Pointing Live In The Present

Book:The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Source: The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

“To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.”

Ifs Art Today Past Alive Painter Greek Works Of Art Live For Today

Book:Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

“No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!”

Today Past Winning Alive My Friends Died Champion Ancestor Infancy Live For Today

Author:Daniel Levitin

“Stop watering things that were never meant to grow in your life. Water what works, what's good, what's right. Stop playing around with those dead bones and stuff you can't fix, its over...leave it alone! You're coming into a season of greatness. If you water what's alive and divine, you will see harvest like you've never seen before. Stop wasting water on dead issues, dead relationships, dead people, a dead past. No matter how much you water concrete, you can't grow a garden.”

People Ifs Matter Past Grows Stuff Water Issues Alive Greatness Divine Like You Garden Seasons Bones Concrete Harvest Dead People Playing Around

Author:T. D. Jakes

“The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.”

Men Soul Character Past Memories Alive Fashion Tests Riches Test Of Character

Book:Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion

Source: Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion

“There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.”

Mind Has Beens Might Past Desire Energy Wish Difficult Worry Alive Amount Ego Happenings Relation Frustrated Idle Frozen Might Have Been Difficult Things When Things Go Wrong

Author:Meher Baba

“The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers.”

World Heart Whole Past Alive Reader My Heart Communicate Whole World

Book:A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C

Source: A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C

“Sometimes we say we want an end to hate or racism or sexism. But we all participate in keeping these structures alive. If everyone decided to relinquish the past what would happen to people who feel that there hasn't been proper atonement made to them? And what happens to the person who feels that the constant atonement is their identity?”

People Ifs Want Feels Persons Made Ends Sometimes Happens Past Hate Alive Identity Racism Decided Structure Constant Sexism Atonement

Author:Chris Abani

“Karma is not something pessimistic. If you think of karma as something wrong, you are seeing karma only according to what happened in the past. You look at the past and karma becomes a monster. So you should also look at karma in the present and future. Then karma becomes something very wide and really alive. Through karma you can understand what your destiny is. Destiny itself has no solid form; it's something you can create. You can create your life. That is why we study karma.”

Ifs Thinking Should Looks Past Form Destiny Study Alive Seeing Happened Wide Karma Monsters Our Destiny Your Destiny Pessimistic

Book:Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

Source: Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

“That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to be aware of its presents. What is behind us [the future] cannot be seen and is liable to be forgotten readily. What is ahead of us [the past] cannot be forgotten so readily or ignored, for it is in front of our minds' eyes, always reminding us of its presence. The past is alive in us, so in more than a metaphorical sense the dead are alive - we are our history.”

Mind Helping Eye Past Memories Behinds Alive Fronts Forgotten Conception Ignored Our Memories Reminding Liable Metaphorical

Author:Epeli Hau'ofa

“If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Past Alive

Book:Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Source: Hercule Poirot's Christmas

“It's guilty of the very thing that makes kids hate history as a subject when it's taught badly: The Da Vinci Code makes the past feel like a dull, grainy, faraway thing, instead of something vibrant and alive.”

Feels Kids Past Hate Alive Subjects Taught Guilty Code Dull Da Vinci Code

Author:Stephanie Zacharek

“To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.”

Past Romance Night Passion Imagination Alive Singing Gambling Intrigue Adultery Venice Abduction Gondolas

Author:Peggy Guggenheim

“Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.”

Ends Past Sex Half Five Alive Wife Wonderful Berserk

Author:Gavin Ewart

“Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.”

Feels Mean Has Beens Art Stills Past Alive Modern Duty Art Is Function Communicate Liberated

Author:Antony Gormley

“Don't worry about your future lives, past lives. Button up your shirt! Stand up straight! Go out and do something. Go out and have some fun. Be alive, change, dissolve, explode!”

Past Fun Worry Alive Buddhism Shirts Our Future Buttons Your Future Past Life Future Life Button Ups

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.”

Source: Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.”

Giving Looks Soul Dream Pain Past Destiny Alive Duty Achievement Rewards Emptiness Nothingness Toil Incentives Our Destiny Your Destiny Here And Now Daydreaming Desolation

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“All over France, in every city there stand cathedrals like this one, triumphant monuments of the past. They tower over the homes of our people like mighty guardians, keeping alive the invincible faith of the Christian. Every arch, every column, every statue is a carved leaf out of our history, a book in stone, glorifying the spirit of France.”

People Book Home Christian Past Spirit Cities Alive Stones France Towers Leafs Guardian Statues Monument Columns Invincible Cathedrals Triumphant Arches

Author:Sonya Levien

“J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Stills Ends Past Dies Father Work Alive Son Medicine Retiring Desks

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water; water that seems alive, always rushing past yet never going, always the same yet ever different. Was it perhaps similar feelings of awe that gave rise to the first animistic religions, the worship of the elements and the mysteries of nature over which there was no control? Only when our prehistoric ancestors developed language would it have been possible to discuss such internal feelings and create a shared religion.”

Firsts Has Beens Different Feelings Seems Past Language Water Alive Mystery Elements Worship Awe Internals Ancestor Responding Rushing Chimpanzees Prehistoric Mystery Of Nature

Author:Jane Goodall

“Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.”

Way Action Past Struggle Alive Consequence Alternatives Revolutionary Tragic Outlook Visionaries Prophetic Pragmatism Praxis

Author:Cornel West

“This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!”

Life Eye Past Grief Alive Thousand Dust Live Life Another Day I Am Alive

Author:Don Marquis

“I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.”

Ifs Thinking Years Long Two Matter Past Three Too Much Pieces Alive Written Hundred Years Ago Performances Productions Long Ago Live In The Present

Author:David Finckel

“You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.”

Want Kind Ideas Whole America Past Church Records Alive One Thing Streets Music Is Cat Radio All Kinds History Of Music

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.”

Past Alive Building Building The Future Metal Gear

Author:Hideo Kojima

“All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending. Limitations of human understanding. Too quick to criticize, obligation to survive, we hunger to be alive. All that is, ever, ever was, will be ever twisting, turning, Through The Never. In the dark, see past our eyes. Pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies. Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens, on a quest, meaning, reason. Come to be, how it begun. All alone in the family of the sun, curiosity teasing everyone. On our home, third stone from the sun.”

“In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.”

“Bill Clinton is the only ex-president who hasn't planned his own funeral. But, in his defense, in the past he has said he wants to be buried next to Hillary. I guess he figures he never slept next to her when they were alive, might as well try it now that they're dead.”

Want Trying Wells Said Might Past Next President Alive Figures Bills Clinton Defense Buried Funeral Exes

Author:Jay Leno

“We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.”

Way Has Beens Art Stills Hard Age Past Dies Successful Alive Century Baby Lessons Forgotten Staying Staying Alive Art Of Living Hard Way Boomers Baby Boomer Learning The Hard Way

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Without perceiving things through the old filter of past conditioning and conceptualization, one can sense the universe is intensely alive. Even so-called inanimate objects - I often pick up little objects and just look at them and sense that they are alive. Physicists actually confirm that what we perceive as dead matter is not dead at all. Everything is an intensely alive energy field. That aliveness is only an aspect of the aliveness or life that I am.”

Looks Littles Matter Past Universe Energy Alive Fields Objects Picks Aspect Perceive Physicist Conditioning Filters Inanimate Objects Energy Fields Conceptualization

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“That happens to a lot of couples. I understand the black history in this country, and regret it, I wish it hadn't happened. See, I also know that it hasn't happened to African-Americans alive today. There isn't one African-American alive today who's treated as three-fifths of a person like it was in the past.”

Knows Persons Country Happens Today Past Three Wish Black Alive Happened Regret Couple Treated African American Black History Live For Today

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The task is to keep the lost opportunities of the past alive.”

Past Opportunity Lost Alive Tasks Lost Opportunity

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage and Matsuzawa Yutaka as artists who live in the past. Their ideas are still alive in our world because they express the very important concerns of our age. That is why I could trust them as "contemporary artists".”

World Feels Stills Important Ideas Age Past Artist Alive Example Concern Contemporary Our World Cages Great Art Great Artist Living In The Past

Author:Yasumasa Morimura

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