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Quotes About Present

To relive the past is to relinquish the future. If you are willing to let go of the past, then you are ready to step into the future. When you choose to remain stuck in a moment, you become incapable of seizing divine moments.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Three powerful life-changing words passed on from God to us: Now choose life! Right now, this moment, put away the baggage from the past, shake yourself free from the fear of the future unknown. Right now, choose life—seize your divine moment. A
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
The swiping culture lures us with infinite possibilities, but it also exerts a subtle tyranny. The constant awareness of ready alternatives invites unfavorable comparisons, weakens commitment, and prevents us from enjoying the present moment.
~ Esther Perel
Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures, or strives to endure.
~ Eudora Welty
What occupied his full mind was time itself; time passing: he was concentrating
~ Eudora Welty
The memory is a living thing—it too is in transit. But during its moment, all that is remembered joins and lives—the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead.
~ Eudora Welty
I ought not to have stirred, I was swept into the dance, caught up in the whirling movement of things. Being in Time means running after the present. You run after things, you run with things, you flow away.
~ Eugene Ionesco
You worry yourself unnecessarily. Put the thought of hitting right out of your mind!
~ Eugen Herrigel
I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come.
~ Eugene O'Neill
ACCEPT – yourself, others and your current situation FORGIVE – yourself and others BE GRATEFUL LIVE IN THE MOMENT FEEL YOUR GOALS ALREADY ACHIEVED REPLACE FEAR WITH LOVE AND KINDNESS BE HAPPY.
~ Andrew Matthews
Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present.
~ Andrew Mayne
MEMORY IS A KIND of friendship, a friendship with the more necessary parts of oneself. How often do we reach for the past's genial knowledge to meet the unknowables of the present, asking once again that the anterior world might blossom into life and colour the current day? In this at least I cannot be alone.
~ Andrew O'Hagan
We only think of days and months to keep track of times that aren't now. Fuck days. Fuck months. This was how it was going to be from now on: forever.
~ Andrew Smith
I regret everything because it has just finished, and already when I was twelve, I lamented the time that had gone by. Even in the best of spirits, it's always been as though I wrestle with the present in a vain effort to stop its becoming the past.
~ Andrew Solomon
I hit walls of past pleasure all the time, and for me past pleasure is much harder to process then past pain...for me the traumas of the past are mercifully far away. The pleasures of the past however, are tough...the worst of depression lies in a present moment that cannot escape the past it idolizes or deplores.
~ Andrew Solomon
Downgrade the "now". Realise that the current moment is no more real than the past moments in your life.
~ Andrew Thomas
The dividend discount model suggests that in an efficient market, the current price of a stock should equal the present value of all expected future dividends, assuming for the sake of simplicity that the investor has no intention of selling the stock. (The present value is sometimes called the discounted value, since the present value of an item is discounted from its value in the future.)
~ Andrew W. Lo
Cada momento do tempo carrega em si o passado, o presente e o futuro. Cada momento do tempo carrega em si a eternidade. Entende? - Não. - Não faz mal.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
It drew us, because life is made of bits of the present that stay in the mind. The world itself, really, is made of that.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
In the slanting light of late autumn, the gestures and bodies of people are more expressive the less meaning they have. Men stand on street corners staring at the emptiness of the day. They spit on the sidewalk and smoke cigarettes. That's the present. ...Time, approaching from afar, is like the air that someone else has already breathed.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
Widz? przesz?o?? wyra?niej ni? tera?niejszo??. Przecie? to, co jest nabiera sensu dopiero, gdy minie.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
S tim je tipovima isto tako, podsje?aju na zapo?eto i malkice nedovršeno. Kao da su se zaustavili i ?ekali na nastavak evolucije ili stvaranja, kao da su ?ekali što ?e se još dogoditi i živjeli u neprestanoj sadašnjosti, koja se stalno preobli?uje u prošlost.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
our definition of wisdom? The ability to see into the future the consequences of your choices in the present.
~ Andy Andrews
Our thinking creates a pathway to success or failure. By disclaiming responsibility for our present, we crush the prospect of an incredible future that might have been ours.
~ Andy Andrews