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Quotes About Present

Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.
~ Eric Thomas
history was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one's own life.
~ Eric Van Lustbader
Anticipation, she would say, locks you into a mind-set, which, whether you realize it or not, dictates your actions, even though they may be the wrong ones. If you don't anticipate, your mind is clear, your actions develop as the situation unfolds.
~ Eric Van Lustbader
The past is littered with regret, the future bound by anxiety. The time is always now.
~ Eric Van Lustbader
If you're so afraid of the past you have to hide from it, it's not your past. It's your present.
~ Erica Spindler
The way in which we view human life and society is the same whether we are concerned with things of the past or things of the present.
~ Erich Auerbach
Where the past has ceased and the future has not yet arisen, In the unimpeded state of present wakefulness, Rest in the manner of mind looking into mind. No matter what thoughts may arise at this time, They are all the display of the single mind essence. As the nature of space is unchanging, You will realize the all-pervasive mind essence to be changeless. This is the Great Perfection (dzogchen), the ultimate of all vehicles, The unexcelled meaning of the self-existing Mind Section.
~ Erik Pema Kunsang
Now is now. And now will never be again. Tomorrow is another country. The magic of the present moment must be found out and be given a further life in the attic of our remembrance. ("Voices of the sea" )
~ Erik Pevernagie
Waiting is a battle against time. Waiting is time going by and it can be enjoyed, when we are in a privileged state of hope or looking forward. Conversely, waiting can be time wasted or killed, when we are in a state of distress and anguish. ("Waiting for a place behind the geraniums " )
~ Erik Pevernagie
I will honor my ancestors in StarClan," Bramblestar vowed, "but not those who have ever walked in the Dark Forest. Guide my steps wisely, warriors of the past." He lowered his head. "And warriors of now".
~ Erin Hunter
I know she was special to you, but remember what Yellowfang said to me when I couldn't stop thinking about Silverstream: Put your energy into today. Stop worrying about the past. (Cinderpelt)
~ Erin Hunter
I will honor my ancestors in StarClan, but not those who have ever walked in the Dark Forest. Guide my steps wisely, warriors of the past. And warriors of now.
~ Erin Hunter
Put your energy into today. Stop worrying about the past.
~ Erin Hunter
Se puede espiar la materia misma de que están hechos los sueños: en los veinte, la técnica es lo maravilloso moderno, una promesa de futuro que desborda de pronto sobre el presente.
~ Beatriz Sarlo
Before addressing what to eat, the most urgent matter is how to eat.
~ Bee Wilson
The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
~ beecher henry ward xvi
don't hope next day live today
~ being human
What you need to do is harness the self-love you are hypostasizing as offspring, as the next generation of you, and let it branch out horizontally into the possibility of a transpersonal revolutionary subject in the present and coconstruct a world in which moments can be something other than the elements of profit.
~ Ben Lerner
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
~ Ben Nicholson
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
~ Benjamin
If our great view is upon those of the next, the expectation of them is an infinitely higher satisfaction than the enjoyment of those of the present.
~ Benjamin Franklin
martin learnt quickly to take every day as it came and never expect one day to be the same as the last
~ Benjamin Zephaniah
I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
~ Action Bronson
I'm not really the sort to reflect or look forward. I prefer concentrating on the now.
~ Pete Burns