Quotes About Present

The past was a field of embers and ash, an old Saldaean proverb said, the remnants of the fire that was the present.

Wolves lived in the moment; though they remembered the past and seemed to have an odd sense for the future, they didn't worry about either. Not as men did. Wolves ran free, chasing the winds. To join them would be to ignore pain, sorrow and frustration. To be free…

El pasado había quedado atrás; el presente era lo que contaba, y así había que aceptarlo. Hacer lo contrario sólo

Your future is depends on what you do today, not tomorrow.

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow

Stop it! Do not think of things that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you cannot think about. Concentrate on what is. Now. You. Not what others say you are—not even what you may think you are. Only the now. And the now is a man who can give you answers.

for life was lived for active memories; the dormant ones lost meaning.

Meanwhile, back at reality...- G.Lucas

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself

Romantic Quality always correlated with instantaneous impressions. Square Quality always involved multiple considerations that extended over a period of time. Romantic Quality was the present, the here and now of things. Classic Quality was always concerned with more than just the present. The relation of the present to the past and future was always considered. If you conceived the past and future to be all contained in the present, why, that was groovy, the present was what you lived for.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

The past cannot remember the past. The future cannot generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

The past exists in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore unreal. Any intellectualy conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization process takes place. There is no other reality." ~ from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy.

What a splendid day! Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.

I just want to drink the day's loveliness in . . . I feel as if she were holding it out to my lips like a cup of airy wine and I'll take a sip at every step.

I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through

Ye've only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day.

Beyond those ten minutes there did not seem, just then, to be anything worth being called Time.

I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through.

Isn't it good just to be a live on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.