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Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth,
and that is that no instruction book came with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Related topics: Nature
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed,
but nature does not depend on us.
We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
God is a verb, not a noun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Don't fight forces, use them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tombs are the clothes of the dead.
A grave is a plain suit;
while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
What usually happens in the educational process is
that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed
and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature
they have lost their innate capabilities.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The earth is like a spaceship
that didn't come with an operating manual.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are not going to be able
to operate our Spaceship Earth
successfully nor for much longer
unless we see it as a whole spaceship
and our fate as common.
It has to be everybody or nobody.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
My ideas have undergone a process
of emergence by emergency.
When they are needed badly enough,
they are accepted.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tension is the great integrity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting.
We allow them to disperse because
we've been ignorant of their value.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor,
mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour
is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be here now.
- Ram Dass
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten
when you start thinking in terms of achieving something.
When the achieving mind arises,
you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
- Osho
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now.
When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies.
We are seeing what is before us.
- John Bradshaw
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is the bridge between acceptance and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
I live in the moment, and I live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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