Tenses Quotes

The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time;
it exists in the past and the future.
And remember, time consists of only two tenses,
the past and the future.
The present is not part of time,
the present is part of eternity.
- Osho

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The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fibers of all things have their tension
and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
- Henry David Thoreau

We who engage in nonviolent direct action
are not the creators of tension.
We merely bring to the surface
the hidden tension that is already alive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Tension is the great integrity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller

Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen

May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous

A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung

The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins

No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim

The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein

The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J. Clinton

In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu

The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan

Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson

The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)

The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles

The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin

To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho

Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb

In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw

To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller

Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales

There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie