Amy Tan Quotes

Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

The living moment is everything.

The moment is the sole reality.

Existence begins in every instant.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

We must exist right here, right now!

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

...this moment... is the only physical reality you have.

Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.

Yesterday you were thinking about today because then it was tomorrow; now it is today and you are thinking about tomorrow, and when the tomorrow comes, it will become today- because anything that exists, exists here and now, it cannot exist otherwise.

What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

We do not become. We simply are.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra