Quotes About Present

I'm pretty sure the past is only good for one thing and that's getting a person where they are at the present.

You were the best birthday present I ever got." "Thank you." "I wanted to give you something back, but I've got to warn you that it's not half as good as my present. Even so, you have to keep it." "All right." He draped the pink bow around his neck and grinned. "Happy birthday, Rosebud.

We are living now. We shall not live long. No one should tell us we shall live again. This is our little while. This is our chance.

We are not endeavoring to chain the future, but to free the present. We are not forging fetters for our children, but we are breaking those our fathers made for us. We are the advocates of inquiry, of investigation, and thought. This of itself, is an admission that we are not perfectly satisfied with our conclusions. Philosophy has not the egotism of faith.

Equanimity is based on the knowledge that everything changes and will always change and that is okay. We find equanimity only by paying close attention to what is happening in the moment.

You don't have to be in your later quarter of life to benefit from a future time perspective. Unplugging yourself from the present and projecting your dreams into the future can help you reach fulfillment at any age.

Please teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

As each hour passes it's like a door has closed. You will never be able to revisit that hour to undo something you regret, or to do something you should have, so it's important to make the hour you are in the one that counts.

It is this day you are living right now, this very day, that is yours to make of it what you will. So make it beautiful, if you can.

That the past is nothing you can make friends or enemies of. It just is what it is. Or was. It is this day you are living right now, this very day, that is yours to make of it what you will.

Remembering what you want about the past, even if it's not entirely true, keeps you from giving up on the present.

I had been told something like that before. That the past is nothing you can make friends or enemies of. It just is what it is. Or was. It is this day you are living right now, this very day, that is yours to make of it what you will. So make it beautiful, if you can.

Social justice activists in the South, for example, who are struggling to force their neighbors to face the ways their racist history informs the racist present, are above all aware of how hard it all is. The acknowledgments are too defensive, the racism too tenacious, the impulse to insist on one's own victimization too

Social justice activists in the South, for example, who are struggling to force their neighbors to face the ways their racist history informs the racist present, are above all aware of how hard it all is. The acknowledgments are too defensive, the racism too tenacious, the impulse to insist on one's own victimization too strong.

It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting to find out what it is, the eagerness and impatience and curiosity and anticipation grip you in an even stronger, more thrilling way than you feel after you find out what's inside.

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

In the end, it's only the moments that we have.

Feeling young and old at the same time is the present." From FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood

Ojalá pudiera congelar este momento, ahora mismo, aquí mismo, y vivir en él para siempre.

To me, there's no point in talking about things that might have been.

It goes on and on and on and eventually completely consumes my mind, blocking out memories and hopes of tomorrow, erasing everything but the present, which I begin to believe will never change. There

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever," he

M'agradaria poder congelar aquest moment, just ara, aquí, i viure'l per sempre.

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever