Quotes About Present

Each day provides its own gifts.

Il ne sert à rien de regretter sa jeunesse, Ni de maudire la vieillesse, Ni d'avoir peur de la mort, Ta vie, c'est la journée que tu es en train de vivre, Rien d'autre. Alors divertis-toi, sois heureux, Et sois prêt à partir. (p.424)

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.

The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester of our bastard offspring.

History is not the annals; it's what happens around us when we're unaware it's history.

Every moment is auspicious. There is always some magic in it.

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it's just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

at different times in the past, both the American Left and the American Right have stood for group-transcending values. Neither does today.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

Every day is the prime of your life.

The same five letters can be rearranged to express my daily sense of—and relationship to—time. First from the viewpoint of childhood, then young adulthood, and now, the present. ACRES of it. . CARES about it. RACES against it .

But the Psalms not only ask for salvation; they also show that salvation is in a sense already present. We don't have to pin all our hopes on a hero and invest all our yearnings toward some future date. This is the day for rejoicing; any time the psalm is sung, this is the day. The kingdom of heaven is present here, if we just pay attention.

To-day belongs to me, To-morrow who can tell.

Today is ours; what do we fear? Today is ours: we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish at least with us to stay.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. Source?

Quer dizer que a morte não nos tomará nada (já que só nos tomará o futuro que não é), que o tempo não nos toma nada (já que o presente é tudo), enfim que é absurdo esperar a eternidade - pois já estamos nela. ''Se entendermos eternidade não como uma duração infinita mas como atemporalidade,'' dizia por sua vez Wittgenstein, ''então tem a vida eterna quem vive no presente.

Hay que vivir la pasión cuando se presenta, pero lo más sensato es no esperar nada de ella.

L'abstrait ne contient pas le fait ; le vrai ne contient pas le réel ; l'éternel présent ne contient pas le futur : l'homme est libre et (mais cela revient au même) Dieu n'existe pas.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Lo que mas separa a las personas es, sin duda, que unos vivan en el pasado y otros en el presente.

Belki de insanlar? en çok bölen ?ey, kimilerinin her ?eyden önce geçmi?te, kimilerinin de yaln?z içinde bulunduklar? dakikada ya?amalar?d?r.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past