To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

Joan Jett

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

Kathleen Turner

I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.

Janet Jackson

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

John Burroughs

By the Quiet Moment, if you want to be woken by emptiness, Just open your mind, and your heart will meet something... it always has something there.

Suka

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Gustave Flaubert, Trans. by Will

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.

Anthony Brandt

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind.

Andrea Newman

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

John Barton

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Thomas Carlyle