Quotes About Present

I have always told my children that they might as well decide to embrace God's will for their lives right where they are and engage in the present moment with as much faith and wisdom and skill as they can, because their circumstances are not going to miraculously change.

Play the tennis that is in front of you, not the tennis you played yesterday or the tennis you hope to play tomorrow.

To identify a person as a Southerner suggests not only that her history is inescapable and formative but that it is also impossibly present. Southerners live uneasily at the nexus between myth and reality, watching the mishmash amalgam of sorrow, humility, honor, graciousness, and renegade defiance play out against a backdrop of profligate physical beauty.

The mind is powerful. Left to its own devices, it can be a huge source of distraction, pulling you away from being present and taking you down the mental corridors of your thoughts.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

But, she remembers, you always have to assume that the present is real. It's the only way to remain sane. It's the only way to remain ethical.

There are times when I can't help thinking about the past. I know the present is the place to be. It's always been the place to be. I know I've been recommended by very wise people to stay in the present as much as possible, but the past sometimes presents itself. The past doesn't come as a whole. It always comes in parts.

What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know.

past moments old dreams back again or fresh like those that pass or things things always and memories I say them as I hear them murmur them in the mud

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

The future is purchased by the present.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

I am the wild machinist, past destroyed, reconstructing the present.

It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now.

Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22

Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.

Je moet niet verdrietig worden van het verleden. Of moedeloos van de toekomst. Je moet je concentreren op het heden. Als dat goed zit, komt de toekomst vanzelf.

Uno necesita un presente, para no tener que pensar en el pasado.

The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.