Quotes About Present

Si hay algo que pueda hacer ahora con respecto a mi futuro, lo haré. Fuera de eso, me limitaré a dejarle que siga su curso y me dedicaré a disfrutar del momento presente, porque la experiencia me ha enseñado que sólo puedo hacer frente a las cosas cuando éstas se presentan, no antes de que ocurran, y que el presente me proporciona siempre los recursos y la energía necesarios para afrontarlas».

En adelante, podrás ir pasando de un momento a otro de la vida plenamente absorto en el presente, llevando contigo tan poca carga del pasado que tu espíritu podría pasar a través del ojo de una aguja; tan escasamente afectado por la preocupación acerca del futuro como las aves del cielo y los lirios del campo. Ya no estarás apegado a ninguna persona o cosa, porque habrás desarrollado el gusto por la sinfonía de la vida.

The world as it is is enough.

A travel website says that there are 280 fountains in Rome, but it seems as if there are more:...Remove them and there is no present tense, no circulatory system, nor dreams to balance the waking hours. No Rome.

silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the past.

had felt time settle over itself, imbricate and fix into place the vertigo of future aligning with the present.

Every second of every day has its own magic. - Pg. 163-4

as if the imminent could not wait to become the past, or the present lunged at the future, eager for what would be.

Today is the tomorrow I was worried about yesterday.

Today is the tomorrow we feared yesterday.

The few questions I had asked had been futile and I was suddenly dispirited, for it had occurred to me that had Holmes been present, he would have probably have solved the entire mystery by now.

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.

Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.

Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys.

I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

The future is not so interesting for me because the future doesn't exist. I am really focused on the contemporary.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity.

Now I don't put things in the boxes anymore. I'm just focusing on right now.

I got to a stage in my mid-20s where I was focusing on 'what's next, what's next,' and sometimes you don't enjoy what you should.

Really focusing on what I have to do right now... no matter what role I'm playing - it alleviates everything around me and makes everything a lot more simple.

I've really learned, first, focusing on the future and thinking about the future doesn't let you enjoy where you are now. And second of all, it's things that you can't control. You can't know.