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Quotes about presence
Words on presence — gathered from across the ages, set on the page.
We stress too much for a life that can end at anytime. Make sure to live.— Anonymous
May you live every day of your life.— Jonathan Swift
Your normal day is someone's dream, so be thankful every day.— Anonymous
You're so focused on the future that you don't realize, today was what you prayed for years ago.— Anonymous
Imagine reading a book with no way to turn back the page, how carefully would you read it? That's life.— Anonymous
Don't offer a lecture to a person who needs a hug.— Anonymous
The life you're rushing through is the life someone else ran out of time to live.— Anonymous
I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.— Henry David Thoreau
Remember that all is opinion.— Marcus Aurelius
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.— Lao Tzu
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cost of a thing is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.— Henry David Thoreau
He who should teach men to die would teach them to live well.— Michel de Montaigne
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present knows nothing of the age in which he lives.— Oscar Wilde
That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.— Rabindranath Tagore