Quotes About Present

Nothing keeps. There is one law in the universe: NOW.

YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.

You should do everything as if it's the last time you might ever do it. Because, you know, it may be.

Now' is the watchword of the wise.

Meditation refreshes our mind and helps us let go of old patterns. We spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future; instead, we are focused on the present.

Enjoy the now. Time flies, enjoy it while you can.

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

What I am interested in is the present time

is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?

Ah, but is any history really all that ancient?' Second asked. 'Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?' This man was more annoying than any history teacher Jordan had ever had.

A poem by Margot Bickel A little peace within the last hours of the almost bygone day a little silence between the days so that the nascent yesterday does not get in the past and tomorrow is lived for today

Non ho una storia. Così come non ho una vita. La mia vita viene frantumata ogni giorno, ogni istante di ogni giorno, dal presente della vita, e non ho alcuna possibilità di vedere chiaramente quello che viene chiamato: la propria vita.

If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory. Translation by David Downie

J'ai vécu durant ces quelques semaines aussi libre d'inquiétudes que si je devais mourir le lendemain, ou vivre toujours.

Che cosa è il tempo, e perché deve considerarsi passato? Fino a quando viviamo esiste un solo tempo, il presente.

Le sue parole avevano una sonorità lontana come se prendessero la loro ragione da un passato che si faceva futuro abolendo il presente.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

I should have learned mindfulness, and it's too late now because it's no good learning it when you're already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I'll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.

Fight today's war today. Leave tomorrow's war until tomorrow.

because the past had shaped the present, it was more important than the present

I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, never mind in ten years' time. I can only live life with the stuff I know.

There is no Mr. Right because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us, and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.