Pastoral Resources

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.

There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.

How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.