Quotes About Present

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present, and a waste to live in the future.

I have little to do with how you'll meet tomorrow, Gurney Halleck. I can only help you meet today." "Then I'll accept that help and stay until

that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

The present is distraction; the future a dream; only memory can unlock the meaning of life.

Moneo has discovered it is pointless to live in the past, impossible to live in the future, and difficult to live in the present.

There was danger, he felt, of overrunning himself, and he had to hold onto his awareness of the present, sensing the blurred deflection of experience, the flowing moment, the continual solidification of that-which-is into the perpetual-was.

In the old ways and old religions, there'd been no future, only an endless now.

You had to pick and choose, discreetly animating the past. And was that not the purpose of consciousness, the very essence of being alive? Select from the past and match it against the present: Learn consequences.

And he wondered: What is the now?

Moneo is trapped. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

famed intelligence had become a kind of shrewdness, relying mostly on past observations and past decisions rather than on what she saw in the immediate present.

I have little to do with how you'll meet tomorrow, Gurney Halleck. I can only help you meet today.

tomorrow has not happened and may never happen. This moment here is the only observable time and place for us in our universe. I tell you to savor this moment and understand what it teachers.

You strain at the next instant, refuse to live here and now.

This moment is part of forever.

So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

Let the future sleep for now, as it deserves. If you wake it too early, you get a groggy present.

they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight of any thought for the future.

Please, Father, let he future rest, as it deserves. If you wake it ahead of time, the only result is a sleepy-headed present. You shouldn't need your son to remind you of that.

Oh well, memories, said I. Yes, even remembering in itself is sad, yet how much more its object! Don't let yourself in for things like that, it's not for you and not for me. It only weakens one's present position without strengthening the former one - nothing is more obvious - quite apart from the fact that the former one doesn't need strengthening.

The smoke from Mr Green's cigar, a present from Pollunder, of a thickness that his father would occasionally affirm existed, but had probably never witnessed with his own eyes, spread throughout the room, and carried Green's influence into nooks and corners in which he would personally never set foot.

I may have arrived late, but I'm here now.

Oh well, memories, said I. Yes, even remembering in itself is sad, yet how much more its object! Don't let yourself in for things like that, it's not for you and not for me. It only weakens one's present position without strengthening the former one — nothing is more obvious — quite apart from the fact that the former one doesn't need strengthening. Do you think I have no memories? Oh, ten for every one of yours.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.