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Quotes About Present

The difference between the present and the past is that the conscious present is an awareness of the past in a way and to an extent which the past's awareness of itself cannot show.
~ T.S. Eliot
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.
~ T.S. Eliot
Of the past you can only see what is past, Not what is always present. That is what matters.
~ T.S. Eliot
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.
~ T.S. Eliot
Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.
~ T.S. Eliot
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past, If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
~ T.S. Eliot
Every moment is a fresh start
~ T.S. Eliot
If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable.
~ T.S. Eliot
will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past. And the poet who is aware of this will be aware of great difficulties and responsibilities.
~ T.S. Eliot
It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...
~ Tad Williams
Do not brood too much over what went before or worry too much over what is to come. Between those two is everything that matters--all that is.
~ Tad Williams
Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.
~ Tahar Djaout
The past overshadows the present foreshadows the future.
~ Tami Hoag
They are sparkly," Nawat said. "The griffins shed them. I thought if I brought you a present that was made of discarded things, no one would punish you for having them.
~ Tamora Pierce
I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas. I sell ideas.
~ Ted Dekker
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
~ Ted Dekker
Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas.
~ Ted Dekker
Si te quedas en el hoy mucho tiempo, este se convierte en tu tumba».
~ Ted Dekker
Do not allow fear to bind you up, dear one. You will only lose what you already have. Accept what is given now. ~Yeshua
~ Ted Dekker
Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?
~ Tennessee Williams
The future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into ever lasting regret if you don't plan for it!
~ Tennessee Williams
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.
~ Tennessee Williams
You have to live each hour as if it's your last," she said, "and each day as if you were immortal
~ Julia Quinn
There are moments in life that are between: between the blow and the pain, between the phone ringing and the answer, between the misstep and the fall. One that comes to everyone is a moment, or three, or five, between sleeping and waking, when the past has not yet been re-created out of memory and the present has made no impression. It is a moment of great mercy; disorienting, like all brushes with grace, but a gift nonetheless.
~ Julia Spencer-Fleming