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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

- Napoleon Hill

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Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Anne Frank

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He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

- Buddha

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

- Richard Bach

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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

- Leo Buscaglia

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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, not to anticipate the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

- Buddha

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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

- Audre Lorde

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Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

- Lillian Dickson

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Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.

- Buddha

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One of the most powerful, and deeply spiritual, ways to work for social change is for us to take action in the present that embodies -- right now! -- the future vision that we seek

- Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow

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The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

- Charles Caleb Colton

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To change one's life: 
1. Start immediately. 
2. Do it flamboyantly. 
3. No exceptions.

- William James

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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

- Rabbi Tarfon

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Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

- Henry David Thoreau

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

- Michael Korda

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Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. Stand in your own dooryard and you have eight thousand miles of solid ground beneath you, and all the sidereal splendors overhead.

- John Borroughs

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Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

- Groucho Marx

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To be awake is to be alive.

- Henry David Thoreau

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The beginning is always today.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

- Barbara De Angelis

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Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

- Marcus Aurelius

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