A Quote by Leonard Jacobson

When you are truly present, you illuminate everything around you.

Leonard Jacobson

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Around Everything Illuminate Present Truly

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Leonard Jacobson
American - Teacher
Born: October 28, 1944

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

Rick Perlstein

Being thankful helps you to be present.People commit errors because they are not present.I would encourage women and men to be present - you'll avoid falling into certain pits.For instance, if you know that a person has just lost his wife or her husband or lover, it's unlikely that you will say something that will hurt that person's feelings if you're truly paying attention. You'll make a sweeter life for yourself and for those around you if you are present.

Maya Angelou

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

Nhat Hanh

When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.

Alicia Keys

To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

Andy Greenwald

I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly.

Sheldon B. Kopp

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

Farley Mowat

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

Brit Marling

Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.

Lady Gaga

Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones. When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.

Alicia Keys

We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.

Winona LaDuke

Digital currencies present a chance for money to truly become information, and for the creation of a global financial system that is truly frictionless, open, and uncensored - the vision we once had for the Internet.