Quotes About Present

Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I've got to tell you the facts.

Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.

He who has got rid of the disease 'Tomorrow' has the possibility to attain what he is here for.

Stop dreaming of immortality. Live it instead, right where it exists, in the continual present.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

History is always the interpretation of the present

A sailor called Christopher followed his mistake and those who come later have added theirs. Now he's dead, and as some say of the dead, safe and sound in the legacy of the grave. 'Tis a childish saying, for they be yet present with the living. (211)

Go for efficiency, elegance, and grace in your motions; avoid hasty shortcuts. Rather than thinking about getting the job finished and going on to something else, stay wholly focused on the moment, on the task at hand. Above all, don't hurry. You might discover that by not hurrying you'll finish the dishes sooner than would ordinarily be the case.

But the real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

Popular music is not history, but it can be read historically, dialogically, and symptomatically to produce valuable evidence about change over time. Popular music can mark the present as history, helping us understand where we have been and where we are going.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

Be mindful of the future. But not at the expense of the moment.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

You can only do what you're capable of at the time.

Once the singing was and is

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

One day all men must die, but it serves no good to dwell on death. I prefer to take each day as it comes.

You should think less about the future and more about the pleasures at hand.

For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

Tomorrow can be the first day of the rest of your life. All you have to do is to follow Thoreau. Inhabit your body with delight, with inexpressible satisfaction; both its weariness and its refreshments. And

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.