Quotes About Present

Respect the past in the full measure of its deserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

ROM 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

As for myself, however, today is the day, and I dare not wait for some slow cultural drift finally to pave the way that I might easily float into some nebulous social salvation. I cannot depend on 'them' 'out there' to order into coherency this small sphere of my only present now.

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces --a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

Preferisco raccontare il seguito al presente, il che renderà l'avventura più anodina, le toglierà quell'aura di sacro che conferiscono i tempi passati, dall'imperfetto al passato remoto: il presente è il tempo senza sorprese, un tempo ingenuo, il tempo in cui si vivono le cose come arrivano, ancora nuove e vive, è il tempo dell'infanzia, quello che mi si addiceva.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

in order for someone to see reality as it is occurring there must be mental processing. Mental processing requires time; small amount that it might be, it is still sufficient to make an observation history. In other words, everything we humans believe we are seeing is in the past.

That which is timeless is also the most timely.

A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past.

A thin present issues from a thin, sketchy, rudimentary relation with the future--one that has not much structure to it.

He felt as if he must leap somewhere out of the now, but everywhere it was now.

Ha lehetÅ'séged van a boldogságra a valóságban, akkor élj vele.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

There are eras of decline in which the form our inner life is destined to take becomes blurred. In these periods, we stagger this way and that like creatures who have lost their balance. We sink from hollow joys into dull sorrow, and a pervasive sense of loss lends the future and the past a more alluring air. And so we maunder through remote pasts or distant utopias while the present moment vanishes.

Ahora y aqui cuadra bien la palabra fin, pariente de infinito y hermana menor del confín cerrado.

When you get homesick, it's not something missing, it's something present, a visit. People and places from far away arrive and keep you company for a while.

The present is the only things that has no end.

It's always early, while you still alive.

Your work is to consume your Now with the thought that feels best, wherever you stand, whether you are looking in the past, present or future.