Jack Levine Quotes
Sad Quotes by Jack Levine

Now painting is different.
It's something recollected in tranquility.
- Jack Levine

Impulses are hard to come by these days.
- Jack Levine

I'm an outsider.
- Jack Levine

I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way -
under the hoop.
- Jack Levine

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
- Jack Levine

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists,
as independent characters.
- Jack Levine

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well
as Ted Williams could hit.
- Jack Levine

It was a movement that had all the art critics,
all the museum directors in its thrall.
- Jack Levine

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
- Jack Levine

Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition,
nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
- Jack Levine

This acting was very hard work.
- Jack Levine

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
- Jack Levine

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication
of my disappointment in man,
which is the opposite way of saying that I have high
expectations for the human race.
- Jack Levine

If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey

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

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

Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard

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

With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why wait until you're dead,
when you can create your own Hell right here and now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous

If Christ were here now there is one thing
he would not be - a Christian.
- Mark Twain

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

We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon

Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb

Today is the bridge between acceptance and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous

My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy

The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle

Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber

If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

Make Today count. Today - each Today -
is the most important day of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill

If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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 heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho

Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley

I live in the moment, and I live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stop wishing and fearing the future
long enough to be fully present in TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino

Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill

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

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha

Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James

The past is a ghost, the future a dream,
and all we ever have is now.
- Bill Cosby

It is only when we truly know and understand
that we have a limited time on earth
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,
as if it were the only one we had.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Take Action - Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be here now.
- Ram Dass

Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

The past is no more and the future is not yet.
The only right person is one who lives moment to moment,
whose arrow is directed to the moment,
who is always here and now; wherever he is,
his whole consciousness, his whole being,
is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.
- Osho

Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale

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

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead

Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey