Quotes About Present

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present'...'Then maybe we're not mourning the future,' I said. 'We're mourning ourselves.

Estaba haciendo lo mismo que hacía siempre: agachar la cabeza, trabajar duro, hacer planes de futuro e ignorar el presente.

Memory of the past conditions how they experience the present—that is, how they grasp its meaning, how they are to understand it, and what they are supposed to do in it. No culture, and no person, can remember everything. A culture's memory is the result of its collective sifting of facts to produce a story—a story that society tells itself to remember who it is. Without collective memory, you have no culture, and without a culture, you have no identity.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now—always." Albert Schweitzer

I only wanted to tell you that this was the wonderful time for you. Don't let any of it go by without enjoying it. There won't be any more merry-go-rounds. No more cotton candy. No more band concerts. I only wanted to tell you, Martin, that this is the wonderful time. Now! Here! That's all. That's all I wanted to tell you.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

The future is to be conquered, the present ridiculed, and the past outdone." Voltaire Almighty

Leave Each day as your last

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Self-study represents a profound paradigm shift. It is the moment in our journey when we let go of results and wholeheartedly embrace the process. Once we shift our focus from the results to the process itself, all situations become opportunities. We are present and can welcome all things.

Whoever you are! motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you. Whoever you are! you are he or she for whom the earth is solid or liquid, You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the sky, For none more than you are the present and the past, For none more than you is immortality. —WALT WHITMAN, "A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH

The purpose of the present study is to bring, so far as we are able, some "order and lucidity" into the presently uncoordinated field of anxiety theory.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

I have over the years of my research been struck by the frequency with which the present makes use of the past either in a detrimental manner where it becomes a part of various political ploys, or alternatively in a positive manner to claim an enviable legitimacy and inheritance.

The alienation implicit in modernization is sought to be assuaged by the creation of a past and of ideologies that legitimize the present.

If the past is to be called upon to legitimize the present, as it so frequently is, then the veracity of such a past has to be continuously vetted.

I specialize in famous stout ladies, past and present. I'm best known for my Sophie Tucker. You look almost old enough to remember the late great Sophie, God rest her soul.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

Nothing is but what is now

Water has its own archaeology, not a layering but a leveling, and thus is truer to our sense of the past, because what is memory but near and far events spread and smoothed beneath the present's surface.

To tell the truth she was quite thrilled to be working at the very source of a magazine which helped build up much of her present misinformation.

A minute, fully lived, can feel like all the time in the world.

There is no time like the present to present the present

The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.