Quotes About Present

You should," he called after her, "because that's what life is. A series of moments. Nothing more. We must endeavor to enjoy every single one. Forget about the past and future. They have no place in the present.

that's what life is. A series of moments. Nothing more. We must endeavor to enjoy every single one. Forget about the past and future. They have no place in the present.

The present is always the best, even when its rough.

si encontráramos la manera podríamos vivir mil veces más de lo que estamos viviendo por culpa d los relojes, de esa manía de minutos y de pasado mañana...

No es lo mismo. Pasado mañana es después de mañana, y mañana es mucho después de hoy. Y hoy mismo es bastante después de ahora, en que estamos charlando...

Cómo lo mismo da? No es lo mismo. Pasado mañana es después de mañana, y mañana es mucho después de hoy. Y hoy mismo es bastante después de ahora, en que estabamos charlando con el compañero Bruno, y yo me sentiría mucho mejor si me pudiera olvidar del tiempo y beber alguna cosa caliente.

feliz, ergo sin futuro)

Oliveira ya lo sabía pero de otra manera, y fue necesario que Talita se lo dijese desde su punto de vista para que de las dos cosas naciera como un tiempo nuevo, un presente

But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously...

En nombre de los otros tiempos se hacen las grandes macanas en éstos

Cuando uno es joven y vive ajeno a la realidad, cuando las estaciones pasan sin grandes cambios ni alteraciones, como si fueran nubes en día sin viento, cuando la felicidad consiste en dejarse arrastrar por los sentidos, uno percibe sólo el presente, y el futuro y el pasado pasan a un segundo plano, cuando no desaparecen por completo. Es como en medio del mar, donde sólo existe éste.

No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.

It's all well and good to save the human race. You could say I'm in favor. But you might want to pay a little more attention to what's right in front of you.

The day-to-day. That was the term they used. Thinking neither of a past that was too much a story of loss and death, nor of a future that might never happen.

Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

History is not the pure past; history is a past interpreted from the present of the historian.

throughout the whole history of Christianity there has been a tension between the past and the present, between the given and the sought, between revelation as a deposit in some sense and revelation as the goal of an endeavor, between the faith to be conserved and the truth to be acquired. The tension has not been resolved by the centuries of Christian thought, but a solution cannot be attempted without taking them into account.

The past would be useful if you could use it like that, as a place where you could bury dead bodies, shovelling this convenient loss of memory into the grave to cover up their faces. That's not what the past was for, though. It was where the present went to rot down, so you could use it to grow the future. He smiled; nice piece of imagery, but it was too glib to fool anyone.

That's not what the past was for, though. It was where the present went to rot down, so you could use it to grow the future. He smiled; nice piece of imagery, but it was too glib to fool anyone.

yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision; And today well-lived, makes Yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day; Such is the salutation to the ever-new dawn!

Learn from the past, enjoy the now, and prepare for the future.

As they say in America, 'no better time than the present.'" "Or before I change my mind," I added. "Yes, that, too," Salvatore said, giving me a big grin.

This is what I'm for. This moment.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Art, to be fully appreciated, must be true to contemporaneous life. It is not that we should ignore the claims of posterity, but that we should seek to enjoy the present more. It is not that we should disregard the creations of the past, but that we should try to assimilate them into our consciousness.