logo

Quotes About Present

Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
There was no such thing as a happy ending, only a happy present.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
In other words, time was a kind of palimpsest, traces of the past peeking through the present, only to be written over in the future again.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
We may not have tomorrow, but we have tonight.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
These three cards represent the past, the present, and the future," she told Evie. "The first card is the Tower. It means you came from a difficult past. You were trapped and in danger." "Pretty much. I mean, I am from the Isle of the Lost," said Evie. "I was exiled to our castle with my mother, the Evil Queen." "Dangerous indeed," said Celia. "When I missed our usual Friday face mask, she wanted to murder me
~ Melissa de la Cruz
I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.
~ Melissa Etheridge
I pray for faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what's happening now instead of what's going to happen tomorrow.
~ Melody Beattie
Detachment involves "present moment living"—living in the here and now. We allow life to happen instead of forcing and trying to control it. We relinquish regrets over the past and fears about the future. We make the most of each day. Detachment
~ Melody Beattie
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
~ Melody Beattie
Detachment involves "present moment living"—living in the here and now. We allow life to happen instead of forcing and trying to control it. We relinquish regrets over the past and fears about the future. We make the most of each day.
~ Melody Beattie
Detachment involves "present moment living"—living in the here and now. We allow life to happen instead of forcing and trying to control it.
~ Melody Beattie
We relinquish regrets over the past and fears about the future. We make the most of each day.
~ Melody Beattie
Yes, I know that what you're holding on to is important. Everything that I have ever had to let go of was important to me, too. If it wasn't important, letting go wouldn't be a struggle. We'd just put it down and walk away. You've been given today. Will you use it or will you miss out on today's wonder because you're too preoccupied with holding on to things that are beyond your control?
~ Melody Beattie
Have no fear, child, a voice whispers. Have no regrets. Relinquish your resentments. Let Me take your pain. All you have is the present moment. Be still. Be here. Trust. All you have is now. It is enough.
~ Melody Beattie
Who we are right now is okay.
~ Melody Beattie
That was then, this is now; the moment is never the same twice.
~ Mercedes Lackey
He watched her almost with indifference -for it was all in the past-and even the present was nothing to the pride of his memory.
~ Mervyn Peake
to not understand neocolonialism is to not fully live in the present.
~ bell hooks
We make the revolutionary history, telling the past as we have learned it mouth-to-mouth, telling the present as we see, know, and feel it in our heats and with our words.
~ bell hooks
Life can be found only in the present moment; because the past no long is and the future has not yet come.
~ bell hooks
All the years of my life I thought I was searching for love I found, retrospectively, to be years where I was simply trying to recover what had been lost, to return to the first home, to get back the rapture of first love. I was not really ready to love or be loved in the present. I was still mourning -- clinging to the broken heart of girlhood, to broken connections. When that mourning ceased I was able to love again.
~ bell hooks
Quando conhecemos o amor, quando amamos, é possível enxergar o passado com outros olhos; é possível transformar o presente e sonhar o futuro. Esse é o poder do amor. O amor cura. - art. Vivendo de Amor p.(12)
~ bell hooks
The past was mainly rotten, but it appeared to have passed. The present was pure ebullient collapse. And the future? It hadn't happened yet.
~ Ben Ehrenreich
any one episode, or even moment, in a person's life is so complex, with so many layers of past and present, desire and indifference, drift and drive, consciousness and unconsciousness, that language is the best means we've found of approaching that kind of complexity.
~ Ben Fountain