Quotes About Present

Danger must be present danger. Stakes must be stakes for people we care about. And what might happen to them must be shown from the get-go so we know the consequences of the imminent threat.

Hear the voice of the Bard, Who present, past, and future, sees; Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That walked among the ancient trees.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around us in awareness.   Leland Val Van De Wall

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

We all have a past. We all have a future. But all we really have is right now. You can change your destiny in one moment, if only you refuse to do what you once did.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

I refuse to ask of the past more meaning than it can give to the present.

Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.

I never look back darling. It distracts from the now.

Wishing is a way to remove oneself from what is going on now. Hope springs eternal. Fuck hope. Hope is how most of us avoid growing up.

When you speak descriptively about a present-tense experience, and it changes, you have spoken the truth. It's okay that it is no longer true. Don't worry about it. It is the way things are, and it is fine that they are that way. It's more fun and less boring than trying to keep track of everything. It's called freedom.

When we learn to live in the present we are no longer chained to the past. We say to each other: "I am a being who notices. I have a particular psychological history but it doesn't have to dictate the rest of my life. I can choose how I live, rather than just react from my past the rest of my life." If people don't like that, we saym "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!

Regrets and could-have-beens tried to sneak in, but he shoved them away. No time for this now.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.

Hell is eternal apartness. What had she done that she must spend the rest of her years reaching out with yearning for them, making secret trips to long ago, making no journey to the present? I am their blood and bones, I have dug in this ground, this is my home. But I am not their blood, the ground doesn't care who digs it, I am a stranger at a cocktail party.

There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.

Hay hombres tan ocupados en acongojarse por el otro mundo que no han aprendido a vivir en este.

they've never learned to live in this one

There are just some men who -- who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one [...]

Só que há alguns tipos de homem que... que estão tão ocupados preocupando-se com o próximo mundo, que nunca aprendem a viver neste

Letting go of anger and hate requires us to give up the hope for a different past, along with the hope of a fantasized future. What we gain is a life more in the present, where we are not mired in prolonged anger and resentment that doesn't serve us.