Quotes About Present

he couldn't see the wisdom of it from the point of view of anyone who wanted to live. He self-corrected his thoughts – anyone who was desperate to live. He wanted to live, of course he did, but at this precise moment he was happy enough to gamble his life for a bit of certainty. He had a lot to lose, but it was all in the future, not the present, and that potential loss wasn't tangible enough to trouble him; he'd already lost too much that was real.

feeling the world flatten out. I started to care less about the future. I cared more about making the present tolerable. And time passed.

Happiness is the only good; the place to be happy is here; the time to be happy is now; the way to be happy is to help others.

If you want to ever achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing over something that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.

Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

But don't wait for something to happen before you begin to write; pay attention to the world around you, right now.

The mission field is where we are, never where we go.

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.

What's in a man's past doesn't matter nearly as much as what's in his present, and most importantly, what's in his heart. (Kristen)

Now is history as fast as the mind remembers.

No matter how glorious the past, choosing to live there is choosing to live in a tomb. Live in New Life!

Tomorrow is promissed to no one. We can not waste today.

There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.

SUCH A THIN VEIL separated the past from the present; they existed simultaneously in the human heart.

In constructing a theory which derives the neurosis from causes in the distant past, we are first and foremost following the tendency of our patient to lure us as far away as possible from the critical present…It is mainly in the present that the affective causes lie, and here alone are the possibilities of removing them.

It was a beautiful day and tomorrow was just a promise, and yesterday already a memory. The only thing to cling to was the present

Because everything that begins must end. What causes us to suffer is not in the past or the future: it is here, now, in our memory, in our expectations. We long for timelessness, we endure the passing of time: we suffer time. Time is suffering.

The notion of "the present" refers to things that are close to us, not to anything that is far away. Our "present" does not extend throughout the universe. It is like a bubble around us.

None of the pieces that time has lost (singularity, direction, independence, the present, continuity) puts into question the fact that the world is a network of events. On the one hand, there was time, with its many determinations; on the other, the simple fact that nothing is : things happen.

This means we can say that on Mars there are events that in this precise moment have already happened, events that are yet to happen, but also a quarter-of-an-hour of events during which things occur that are neither in our past nor in our future.

For a hypothetically supersensible being, there would be no "flowing" of time: the universe would be a single block of past, present, and future.

Music can occur only in time, but if we are always in the present moment, how is it possible to hear it? It is possible, Augustine observes, because our consciousness is based on memory and on anticipation.

What causes us to suffer is not in the past or the future: it is here, now, in our memory, in our expectations. We long for timelessness, we endure the passing of time: we suffer time. Time is suffering.

It is the curious local structure of the present that produces black holes.