Quotes About Present

It was so clearly present that there was no necessity to allude to it, this sorry, complicated past, with all its confusions and misunderstandings and mistakes. It was as real and vivid and present as the memory of an automobile accident in the casualty ward where the victims are being brought back to life.

Do you believe what you're saying? How has Getting On With It been working out for you, then? You expect me to live in the eternal Present, like some Hindoo? Wonderful,— my own Gooroo, ever here with a sage answer. Tell me, then,— what if I can't just lightly let her drop? What if I won't just leave her to the Weather, and Forgetfulness? What if I want to spend, even squander, my precious time trying to make it up to her? Somehow? Do you think anyone can simply let that all go?

Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present- not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be purged than its achievements can be expunged. Those who suffered in centuries past are as much beyond our help as those who sinned are beyond our retribution.

Evidence is often particularly abundant when it comes to statements about history, yet the anointed have repeatedly been as demonstrably wrong about the past as about the present or the future—and as supremely confident.

The roots of the present crisis in the American political party system lie at the juncture of money and religion

Feel the feelings. Drop the story. PEMA CHODRON

I've enough problems to deal with at present. As hard-hearted as it may seem, I don't need ye adding to them.

I am doing it because the time is now, and I am here.

Both liturgy and what is euphemistically termed 'domestic work' also have an intense relation with the present moment, a kind of faith in the present that fosters hope and makes life seem possible in the day-to-day.

If it wasn't possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present's cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?

Don't wait for life to happen; life is happening now!

let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness. —James Thurber

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now. - Buddha

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present. - Alice Morse Earle

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is ready cash–use it.

Yesterday is a canceled check tomorrow is a promissory note today is the only cash you have -- so spend it wisely.

No time better than the present,' I always say. Or was that, 'Nothing is better than a present'? I forget.

Every time you discuss the future [in English], grammatically you're forced to cleave that from the present and treat it as if it's something viscerally different.

In nonmeditation we see through the illusion of past, present and future - our experience becomes the continuity of nowness. The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it.