Quotes with present-day

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  • Plotinus God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
    Plotinus
    Roman philosopher (205 - 270)
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  • Abraham Cahan God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Sarah Ban Breathnach Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
    Sarah Ban Breathnach
    American author and philanthropist
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  • C. S. Lewis Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
    The Screwtape Letters (1942)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Roxana Robinson Grief was an actual weight, he thought. It felt like a physical burden. You carried it with you all day, unsheddable. Your shoulders, by nightfall, felt dragged down.
    This is My Daughter p.320
    Roxana Robinson
    American writer (1946 - )
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  • Bobby Orr Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Horace Mann Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Alphonse De Lamartine Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
    Alphonse De Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • Alfonso X of Castile Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
    Original: Si hubiera estado presente en la Creación, habría dado algunas indicaciones útiles.
    Thomas Carlyle, History of Frederick the Great
    Alfonso X of Castile
    Spanish King of Castile and León (1221 - 1284)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Doug Horton Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Maxwell Maltz Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Tryon Edwards Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Jim Rohn Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Betty Shabazz Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.
    Betty Shabazz
    American educator and civil rights advocate (1934 - 1997)
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  • Walt Whitman Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Oscar Wilde He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Milton He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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