Gail Sheehy Quotes

Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

The most intriguing thing about the present moment is that it never grows old.

They had no past. They had no future. They just were.

There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent. Though moving, it is always still. When we try to catch it, it seems to run away, and yet it is always here and there is no escape from it. And when we turn around to find the self which knows this moment, we find that it has vanished like the past.

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

The moment rules over everything.

Time means nothing to me.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

The present will not long endure.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Time is undefeated.

You can't halt time.

Nothing grows old faster than the new.

Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now...that source of eternal energy is here, in you, now.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment. It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown we call the future. Thinking about it almost makes you breathless.

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.

Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.