Quotes About Present

At the present, she said, you are here holding my hands. Your past has nothing to do with me. Just as mine has nothing to do with you.

She did not move. She had her eyes closed. I don't care, she said after a few moments of silence, about tomorrow or about propriety or about anything except tonight and this place. And you.

A present of books is always an advantage in the country.

Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

Put your mind where your body is. One day at a time forces you to reckon with the instant you actually occupy, rather than living in fantasy la-la that never comes.

If you've got one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're straddling today—pissing all over it rather than living in it.

All eternity is in the moment.

What I want to say is that the past is the past, and the present is what your life is, and you are capable of choosing what that will be, darling citizen. So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

the past, the future, the doorway that belongs to you and me.

The first stone represents the past—worries, bad memories, remorse. Understand?" "I do," I say. "The second stone stands for the present. The third pebble is a wish for the future.

She reached into her coat pocket and pulled out a silver watch on a chain. "This is a gift for both of you," she said.

A sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a kind of calm forgetfulness, of which the human mind is by its structure peculiarly susceptible.

A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.

the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope, and anticipations of joy.

my present sensations strongly intimated that the fiend would follow me, and exempt my family from the danger of his machinations.

Just to live here and now—this is the true basis of human life.

Take a moment to completely understand that yesterday is over, last year is over, the last minute is over - the past is the past and cannot change.

Practice being in the present moment, using intuition, and being curious when talking to strangers. 

were distracted by something and lost train of your thought because you weren't in the present moment. Maybe you just couldn't think of anything interesting, funny, or entertaining to say.

What is going on now?" What is your body saying? Then

Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done; To have advanc'd true friends, and beat down baffling foes; That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And, while we dream on this, Lose all our present state, And relegate to worlds yet distant our repose?

I don't want to think anymore. Thinking prevents you from living.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

Stories are not mere flights of fantasy or instruments of political power and control. They link us to our past, provide us with critical insight into the present and enable us to envision our lives not just as they are but as they should be or might become. Imaginative knowledge is not something you have today and discard tomorrow. It is a way of perceiving the world and relating to it.