Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.
Interpretation
Focus on the present moment as it is the only time you truly have.
This quote emphasizes the importance of living in the present and enjoying life rather than being weighed down by the past or overly concerned about the future. Einstein encourages us to appreciate the moment and engage in joyful activities, suggesting that the present is our only certainty.
In practice
This quote can be used during a motivational speech about mindfulness.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves *you*...Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone.
Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.
Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.
We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.
Excellent warriors are not violent.
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.
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