Quotes About Present

Tis said that Chowmushih slept in a boat so that his dreams might mingle with those of the lotus. It was the same spirit which moved the Empress Komio, one of our most renowned Nara sovereigns, as she sang: "If I pluck thee, my hand will defile thee, O flower! Standing in the meadows as thou art, I offer thee to the Buddhas of the past, of the present, of the future.

Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.

Hadapilah hari ini! Inilah saatnya untuk menuntut hidup yang nyata, Dalam rentang waktu yang pendek ini, kita mendapat kesempatan untuk: Berkembang dengan gembira, bertindak dengan mulia. Menciptakan keindahan yang mempesona, Karena hari kemarin cuma mimpi dan hari esok cuma bayang-bayang. Tapi bila hari ini kita jalani dengan baik, setiap hari kemarin akan menjadi mimpi yang indah. Dan setiap hari esok menjadi bayang-bayang harapan. Jadi manfaatkanlah hari ini sebaik-baiknya.

you can only know how you feel in the here and now, not how you'll feel years, months or even days down the line.

That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?

If there is one truth that I have learned, it is that unless you find it inside of Today, you will never find it inside of Tomorrow.

In 2005, the Iraq war was entering its third year and no one believed that we were going to find WMDs any more. The prewar claims of their certain existence were becoming an embarrassing joke, a big present we'd been offered that was getting ever later in showing up.

As far as my mental approach, I really think it's just knowing that the past is really irrelevant.

You chose to live here now. You should try to live in the present.

It was nice to borrow a slice of extra time.

Uncontaminated by humans, they are definitely closer to living in the now. Our problem is that we live in the past and we live in the future, but we very rarely dwell in the now. They are so much in harmony with nature, we surely could use them as a model.

The past affects the present even without our being aware of it.

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Whatever our level of education, we can truly read and understand the Scriptures in the light of our faith in Jesus, the living Word, who is present and speaks to us today in and through his Church. Outside of that faith, no one can do theology or understand Scripture as God intends it to be understood.

The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

Qué agradable es perder la noción del tiempo!

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.

É importante saber, com toda a certeza, que Marco Aurélio não se limita a defender o carpe diem de Horácio ou a aliciar-nos a viver cada dia como se fosse o último – embora também o faça. O que ele prega muito claramente é que o presente é tudo o que temos.

I realize that life is not a step to a better place: life IS the better place, right here and now. It's too good to be true—and it's real.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.