Quotes About Present

...on forever's very now we stand.

Don't you ever worry about the future?" I asked. Jack shrugged. "This is the future," he said.

You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.

It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.

You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost.

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew There was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too And the sun poured in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses Oh, won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses

You've all decided to sacrifice the future to the present. You don't talk about it. You don't all get together and say, "Let's take the easier path. Let's indulge in whatever the moment might bring. And let's agree, further, not to call each other on it.

The Sermon on the Mount outlines the true nature of man, and the proper aim of mankind: concentrate on the day, so that you can live in the present, and attend completely and properly to what is right in front of you—but do that only after you have decided to let what is within shine forth, so that it can justify Being and illuminate the world. Do that only after you have determined to sacrifice whatever it is that must be sacrificed so that you can pursue the highest good.

The present can change the past, and the future can change the present.

We see them in the narrow, immediate, overwhelming now, instead of surrounded by the yesterdays and tomorrows that may be a more important part of them than whatever is currently and obviously manifest. And we have to see in this way, or be overwhelmed.

What's the price you pay for a high standard of living? Well, that's easy. You virtually always sacrifice the present for the future.

because to work means to sacrifice the hypothetical delights of the present for the potential improvement of what lies ahead.

se puede conseguir algo mejor en el futuro renunciando a algo valioso en el presente.

Should victory in the present always take precedence over trajectory across time?

We need to talk about the nature of the present and our plans for the future, so we know where we are, where we are going, and why we are going there.

Even when satisfied, temporarily, we remain curious. We live within a framework that defines the present as eternally lacking and the future as eternally better. If we did not see things this way, we would not act at all. We wouldn't even be able to see, because to see we must focus, and to focus we must pick one thing above all else on which to focus.

El presente puede cambiar el pasado y el futuro puede cambiar el presente.

If you are disciplined and privilege the future over the present you can change the structure of reality in your favour.

Vivimos dentro de un contexto que define el presente como eternamente incompleto y el futuro como eternamente mejor.

It will render you more likely to abuse cocaine and alcohol, as you live for the present in a world full of uncertain futures.

conflict in the present, in the service of longer-term truth and peace?

I opened my eyes again to keep myself with Marks, anchored in the present, among the living.

Pero si la historia de México que se enseña es aburrida no es por culpa de los acontecimientos, que son variados y muy interesantes, sino porque a los que la confeccionaron no les interesaba tanto presentar el pasado, como justificar el presente.

At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.