Quotes About Present

But George is getting old. Won't it very soon be too late? Never use those words to George. He won't listen. He daren't listen. Damn the future. Let Kenny and the kids have it. Let Charley keep the past. George clings only to Now. It is Now that he must find another Jim. Now that he must love. Now that he must live....

To live for the moment is the prevailing passion—to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity. We are fast losing the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations originating in the past and stretching into the future.

Unless you can change the past, you're wasting the present on this guilt

Sweet Pocket, you mustn't ask about my life before I came here. What I am now, I have always been, and everything I am is here with you." "Sweet Thalia," said I. "That is a fiery flagon of dragon toss.

If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change

do not worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429

Let go of your worries and focus only on the task at hand. The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true . I know,--Glaedr

Live the present, remember the past, and fear not the future-Saphira in Eldest

One could argue that all that really matters is that we learn to deal with where we are at any given moment, not where we were.

Vive el presente, recuerda el pasado y no temas el futuro, porque no existe, ni existirá jamás. Sólo existe el ahora.

Whether fate and destiny really exist, the only thing I can do is enjoy the present and live as honorably as possible.

Whether fate or destiny really exist, the only thing I can do is enjoy the present and live as honorably as possible.

Lebe in der Gegenwart und hab keine Angst vor der Zukunft, denn sie existiert nicht und wird es auch nie tun. Es gibt nur das Jetzt.

Si deseas ser feliz, Eragon, no pienses en lo que ha de venir ni en aquello sobre lo cual no tienes ningún control, sino en el ahora y en aquello que sí puedes cambiar. Oromis

Let go of your worries and focus only on the task at hand. The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

Deshazte de tus preocupaciones y concéntrate solo en la tarea que tienes delante. El futuro será el que tenga que ser, y preocupándote por él solo aumentarás la probabilidad de que tus miedos se hagan realidad.

If you wish to be happy, Eragon, think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and of that which you are able to change.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now. He patted her shoulder and smiled with resigned

He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccupied, that for them omens often don't exist.

Remember, planning the future and reflecting on the past are valuable exercises, but doing this throughout your day interferes with what is in front of you—your present.

The study of history is part of man's awareness of himself and the nature and place of his society in the world at large; it is valuable not so much because he can find in the past rough parallels to the present, but because he can find societies and events and ides that are sharply

In the years when I discoverd the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of a commitment to the present, in order to change the world. Now, after ten years or more, the man of letters (restored to his loftiest dignity) can happily write out of pure love of writing.

I know the present only through the television screen, whereas I have direct knowledge of the Middle Ages.