Quotes About Present

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

A whole life can go by being too busy and waiting for "when." Living in the future means barely existing in the present. If you can't enjoy things now, when will you magically develop the tools to enjoy things in the future?

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.

Die Vergangenheit wächst mit der Gegenwart.

Kuulata saab vaid see, kes unustab vahel kella vaadata.

He listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling the future would not speak to him again, revealing the present to him as well as the past.

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

But in no epoch has the struggle to find sanctuary in a foreign country been as arduous as in the present day, as countries isolate themselves behind hostility and jealousy (from The House of a Thousand Fortunes / Das Haus der tausend Schicksale, 1937)

la escritura, que ha evolucionado desde los pliegos más sencillos, pasando por los rollos, hasta culminar en el libro, ha puesto fin al trágico confinamiento de las vivencias y de la experiencia en el alma individual: desde que existe el libro nadie está ya completamente solo, sin otra perspectiva que la que le ofrece su propio punto de vista, pues tiene al alcance de su mano el presente y el pasado, el pensar y el sentir de toda la humanidad.

Only the man who could look into the future without worry could thoroughly enjoy the present.

Nur wer sorglos in die Zukunft blicken konnte, genoß mit gutem Gefühl die Gegenwart.

I liked that they didn't ask me about anything other than here and now, because here and now was working for me. I liked the intense, fun-loving energy around me, the feeling of being part of a group. Even more, I liked being a stranger to the new friends I was making in this new world.

El pasado no se marcha del todo, sino que persiste. Se puede hasta tocar y ver sus restos; y en el medida en que perviven los recuerdos, el pasado es presente. No se puede decir lo mismo del futuro. No está presente de ninguna forma. Puede ser, pero aún no ha llegado. Cuando llega es el presente, pero sólo de manera efímera, hasta convertirse en el pasado. El futuro nunca se puede agarrar con las manos.

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.

The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.

We live in a real world. Come back to it.

Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.