Quotes About Present

Not a rule, but a reminder. We must live this day. We'll never get to live it again.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." —Buddha

It's not for me to judge what a person did in her past. That belongs to her and her alone." "You give people a lot of grace, Jerome. It's really nice." "Everyone has a past. It's who you are right now that matters.

Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

In that beauty, so vast and varied, I felt my own smallness in the wide, wild world. It let me forget myself and yet be wholly present. It let me stop trying to die. If

I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came.

Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me. I think I might be able to do that. Who couldn't do that? It would take somebody mentally ill not to do that, and I'm not mentally ill.

A man is what he is, not what he used to be. —Yiddish proverb

No matter where we are today or what mistakes we've made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.

When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.

There was beauty to be seen if one simply took the time to behold it. The past was not greater than the present.

To be anywhere other than the now is to paint eyeballs on chaos.

consciente de su estatura, de su cansancio, de que la existencia del pasado depende de la cantidad del presente que le damos, y que es posible darle poca, darle ninguna.

Imaginé al hombre cuando bajaba trotando hacia el hotel, después del abrazo; consciente de su estatura, de su cansancio, de que la existencia del pasado depende de la cantidad del presente que le demos, y que es posible darle poca, darle ninguna.

Each man must administer his hatred cautiously. Mine is equitable. I distribute it evenly among those who are frozen in the past and those who perspire in the present. Because while the former are hemorrhoidal in their sensibility, the latter are constipated in the brain. And they complement each other by both betraying the law of life that demands the immediate defecation of all useless detritus, be it antiquated illusion or contemporary cowardice.

En ese rato ha llovido y ha escampado. Un olor fragante entra por la rendija, aliviando la tristeza. O cambiándola de sitio. Con cierto humilde consuelo: el que cuando ya nada subsista del pasado que ahora es nuestro presente, los olores perdurarán aún, cargando nuestro recuerdo.

And I tell myself at the same time that we're terrible judges of the present moment, maybe because the present doesn't actually exist: all is memory, this sentence that I just wrote is already a memory, this word is a memory that you, reader, just read.)

somos pésimos jueces del momento presente, tal vez porque el presente no existe en realidad:

live for today die for tomorrow because tomorrow turns into today and today turns into yesterday live for the people you meet today and die for the people you meet tomorrow because it could change your life

La gente piensa demasiado. Siempre consideran un montón de escenarios diferentes, dentro de diez años, dentro de veinte años, el cielo, el infierno, las consecuencias [...]. Pero lo importante, lo real es el aquí. El ahora. El instante preciso. No hay nada más, no existe ningún instante más allá del ahora mismo.

El momento presente no tiene más fundamento que su parentesco con el pasado.

Stop worrying so much. Don't worry about me; don't worry about you. Seize the moment. Enjoy. Let tomorrow take care of itself.

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting