Quotes About Present

When I left class that day, I did not tell them what I myself was just beginning to discover: how similar our own fate was becoming to Gatsby's. He wanted to fulfill his dream by repeating the past, and in the end he discovered that the past was dead, the present a sham, and there was no future. Was this not similar to our revolution, which had come in the name of our collective past and had wrecked our lives in the name of dream?

There was poetry as well – a luminous world always present beneath the surface, a world that people might offer up as a gift to me, if I only remembered to ask

Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

People don't live in the greater scheme of things, they live in the here and now

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present." Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

She never wore a watch, and for this she didn't need one.

Because maybe the surprise was hiding down there with a red ribbon on top of it.

I felt a calmness birds can bring to people; and, quieted, I sensed here the outlines of the oldest mysteries: the nature and extent of space, the fall of light from the heavens, the pooling of time in the present, as if it were water.

To go in search of what once was is to postpone the difficulty of living with what is.

collective memory, is essentially a reconstruction of the past that adapts the image of historical facts to the beliefs and spiritual needs of the present.

All I know is what's past is past, and what's ahead is ahead. The second is ka, and takes care of itself.

In the brain of a madman only the fuming present exists, with its endless shouting urges, paranoid speculations, and grandiose assumptions.

Learning itself is a present, the best one anyone can give or get.

When he makes you a promise, he is assuring you that however the world changes, his word will not change. Thus, he is creating the future inside the present. Even more: he is creating the present inside the present. He is establishing on stationary point amid the infinite flux of events.

In your present state, Chosen, Desecration lies ahead of you. It does not crowd at your back.

Best to take the moment present As a present for the moment

El hermoso viaje de hoy sólo puede comenzar cuando aprendemos a dejar ir el ayer. STEVE MARABOLI, INVESTIGADOR

Recuerda, hoy es el mañana acerca del cual te preocupabas ayer. DALE CARNEGIE, ESCRITOR

Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.

everything is handled right now on the spot.

The best futures get created in the present moment.

Keep your life creative and simple: what needs to be done now in these three minutes? That's all you ever need to ask, and you'll never have anything like procrastination bother you again.