Quotes About Present

Writing a novel, said Humboldt, seemed to him the perfect way to capture the most fleeting essence of the present for the future.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life." —MARCUS AURELIUS, ROMAN EMPEROR AND PHILOSOPHER (AD 121–180), STOIC

You cannot disconnect the future from the present and you cannot disconnect the present from the past. That's not how time works. Time moves in a continuous motion.

Live life in the present. This moment is the only thing that's real. Worrying about the future and lamenting the past only crowds out the beauty of what is happening now.

This moment is the only thing that's real. Worrying about the future and lamenting the past only crowds out the beauty of what is happening now.

La prigione è il presente. Il presente è ciò da cui cercavano di fuggire quelli che sono in prigione.

the Spirit is the mind that is always present, bringing the best, most loving, most hopeful thought into the midst of every situation.

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.

Live today, tomorrow is uncertain!

I've been so caught up with mapping out a picture-perfect "forever" that I'm completely neglecting my present, which I have far more control over anyway.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

mejor estar vivos, mientras sigamos vivos!

I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.

A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.

When are we motivated to distract ourselves from unpleasant and worrisome thoughts? When we're not facing a clear and present danger. When the chips are not down. When the babbling of our cerebral cortex, rather than the self-defense of our amygdala, is center stage.

Magic doesn't sweep you away; it gathers you up into the body of the present moment so thoroughly that all your explanations fall away: the ordinary, in all its plain and simple outrageousness, begins to shine -- to become luminously, impossibly so. Every facet of the world is awake, and you within it.

Sa prošloš?u, me?utim, ?ovek nikada ne sme da bude siguran. Ona nije, ube?en sam, tako nepromenljiva kao što se ?esto ?uje, ve? se rado, mada u krajnje svedenom obliku, menja i tako uti?e na ne?iju sadašnjost i budu?nost.

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

There is no time in the mind,

Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?