Quotes About Present

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

The walls of books around me, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. I hated to get up.

Men cannot give a meaning to history that they themselves lack, nor can they honor a past which indicts them for their present failures.

What is the difference between an author and a writer? A writer, as we know, writes; an author has written. What does an author do? Auth? Authorize? An author authors. But never in the present tense. No one says, when asked what he or she is doing, "I'm authoring.

É. Naqueles tempos de infância a gente sonhava. Os sonhos eram pequenos e cabiam num sapato. Hoje os sapatos são muito maiores. Só que não nos esquecemos dos sonhos. De modo que não há presente que nos faça sorrir... Já não sabemos o nome da nossa verdade. Daí a nostalgia sem remédio.

só temos o momento. Não percam o agora.

Um passado que se compartilha é um sacramento de solidariedade. Quem se lembra do passado com emoção nunca sentirá tédio no presente.

Being on automatic pilot, multitasking and using past or future thinking are all techniques for ensuring survival, but they can also be at the heart of our unhappiness.

A day, whether six or seven ago, or more than six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in the present Now-moment.

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

Live your life in the now, because you get to a certain age and you realize, "Wow, that was fast.

forward to another great day on the planet Earth. We must cherish each day as though it is our last.

One feels that things are about to change. I have felt this all my life. It is a readiness that robs every act of meaning, making every situation obsolete, putting the present into the past.

Begin where you are and what you are.

Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. Too-lateness is potentially every moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it's no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it's time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.

Aun cuando la aceptación de todas las orientaciones (retornar a un pasado previo, prolongar la situación actual, o acelerar la llegada del futuro) parezca implicar cierto cinismo o resignación hacia el mundo, la realidad es diferente.

Opinions differ on the question of whether a golden age is something you can experience while it's happening or whether it only comes into focus on reflection...no matter how grand and prosperous and momentous the time in which you are living may be, its grandeur is inevitably stained by the incessant drabness of the present.

when you become more mindful of what you put in your body every day, that mindfulness will seep into everything you do. Instead of sleepwalking through your life, you'll be more adept at living in the present moment. And the present, as I like to say, is the only place where good things can happen to you in life.

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

All we truly know when we wake up in the morning is that we have the day in front of us to live.

I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.

Live. For Now. For the time being.