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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
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead.
A grave is a plain suit;
while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- 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
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- 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
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- 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
God is a verb, not a noun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- 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
The earth is like a spaceship
that didn't come with an operating manual.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- 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
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- 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
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
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
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
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
- 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
My ideas have undergone a process
of emergence by emergency.
When they are needed badly enough,
they are accepted.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor,
mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
(Groom), take (Bride)'s hand and place your hand over hers.
Now, remember this moment and cherish it...
because this will be the last time you ever have the upper hand.
- Anonymous
Now, if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if you could lower your wand.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Today is the bridge between acceptance and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
Hero needed - apply now -
open minded independent thinker -
courage preferred.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Why wait until you're dead,
when you can create your own Hell right here and now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
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
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
If Christ were here now there is one thing
he would not be - a Christian.
- Mark Twain
My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy
In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
Make Today count. Today - each Today -
is the most important day of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
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
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
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
I live in the moment, and I live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
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
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