Quotes About Present

You are here," she said. "Live here, not in the past in a country that you can't go back to.

HAPPINESS I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left. There is nothing disconcerting or unpleasant or unfortunate about this moment. It is exceptionally nice, plain, and perfect.

All objects exist in a moment of time.

A moment is not the same as time.

I remind myself that I know the difference between elusion and delusion. It is the separation between desire and belief. I know what separates the past from the present. What lies between then and now, it is but a moment, an easy thing to lose.

The origin of illness may be in the past, but the virulent crisis must be dynamically tackled. I believe in attacking the core of the illness, through its present symptoms, quickly, directly. The past is a labyrinth. One does not have to step into it and move step by step through every turn and twist. The past reveals itself instantly, in today's fever or abscess of the soul.

He gave one the feeling that the whole world was now shut out and only this sensual feast existed, that there would be no tomorrows, no meetings with anyone else – that there was only this room, this afternoon, this bed.

El hombre sencillo no se toma en serio ni trágicamente. Sigue su camino con el corazón ligero y el alma en paz, sin meta, sin nostalgia, sin impaciencia. Su reino es el mundo y le basta. Su eternidad es el presente y lo colma. No tiene nada que demostrar, puesto que no quiere aparentar nada. Ni nada que buscar puesto que todo está ahí.

Viver no presente, como diziam os estóicos, como dizem todos os sábios, não é um sonho, não é um ideal, não é uma utopia: é a simplíssima e dificílima verdade de viver. A eternidade? Se ela é ''um perpétuo hoje'', como queria Santo Agostinho, é inútil esperá-la amanhã.

Pensando bem, o presente é aliás a única coisa que nunca me faltou.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we'll see.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Seize from every moment it's unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Moi qui d'abord ne trouvais de goût qu'au passé, la subite saveur de l'instant m'a pu griser un jour, pensai-je, mais le futur désenchante l'heure présente, plus encore que le présent ne désenchanta le passé...

Le présent serait plein de tous les avenirs, si le passé n'y projetait déjà une histoire.

Because I don't want to remember, he answered. If I did, I might keep the future from happening by letting the past encroach upon it. I create each hour's newness by forgetting yesterday completely. Having been happy is never enough for me. I don't believe in dead things. What's the difference between no longer being and never having been?

Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you. There are some men who have never been kissed like that. There are some men who discover, after Arthur Less, that they never will be again.

The worst of depression lies in a present moment that cannot escape the past it idealizes or deplores.

In depression, all that is happening in the present is the anticipation of pain in the future, and the present qua present no longer exists at all. Depression is a condition that is almost unimaginable to anyone who has not known it.

present tense of mild depression envisages no alleviation because it feels like knowledge.

The two people I like most—outside my family—have secrets that I don't ask about. Momma says it's a flaw. She says I should be more interested; that people like to be asked about themselves. I should find out what made them who they are. I look at Shoogy and Bobby and think it doesn't matter 'cause the past doesn't always make sense of the present.

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

The present no matter what I brought couldn't change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.