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Quotes About Present

Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
~ Uta Hagen
For a moment she felt she was about to reconcile this present time, the words of the man now kissing her, with that time in the past; that she was about to understand the secret currents of her life, about to glimpse what always remains hidden – those depths of the heart where one's fate is decided.
~ Vasily Grossman
That day will come. But at the moment it is this day that has to be lived.
~ Victor Canning
It is as if, when unhappy with the opulent present, we look to the impoverished past to blame our unhappiness on the dead, who faced daunting natural obstacles, rather than the living, who so often don't.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man writhed. He felt that he had been stopped short.
~ Victor Hugo
momentary life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to the future.
~ Victor Hugo
To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day. It
~ Victor Hugo
composed of all the innocence of the present, and of all the passion of the future.
~ Victor Hugo
The time for it has come, and it would indeed be strange if, in the present age, liberty, like light, should penetrate everywhere, except into that one place where freedom finds its most natural realm - in the world of ideas.
~ Victor Hugo
The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.
~ Kristin Hannah
In that one image, Matthew saw the whole of his life; past, present, and future. It was one of those moments—an instant of grace in a crazy, sometimes impossibly dangerous world—that changed a man's life.
~ Kristin Hannah
it's always about family. The past has an irritating way of becoming the present.
~ Kristin Hannah
Sooner or later, Meg, it's always about family. The past has an irritating way of becoming the present.
~ Kristin Hannah
The lure of the distant and difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
~ Kristin Hannah
In life, my dear, you must actually go after what you want. You can't rewrite the past, but you can choose to live with your whole heart in the here and now.
~ Kristin Harmel
you can't rewrite the past. But you can choose to live with your whole heart in the here and now.
~ Kristin Harmel
If you're young, and have grown up only since the Internet has been dissolving the distinctions between past and present and old and new, the sci-fi writer and futurist William Gibson says, "I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory.
~ Kurt Andersen
we live 24 minutes too late and that is viewed from the right side
~ Kurt Schwitters
Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.
~ Kurt Tucholsky
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Creo que lo que tenemos en el presente lo comprende todo –dijo ella al final, escogiendo cuidadosamente las palabras–. Ahí esta todo, no falta nada. Por lo tanto, no hay ninguna necesidad de pedir lo que nos falta a Dios ni de buscarlo en el otro mundo o en el paraíso. Porque ya existe.
~ Ky?ichi Katayama
The focus on the present reality of heaven and hell does not, in some way, raise the question of their existence. Far from it. The present realities of love and hate are proof that heaven and hell are real—so real, in fact, that their ways of life bleed into ours.
~ Kyle Strobel
Today almost any person has a present time problem, growing more pressing as time goes on and as our society evolves. It is a simple question: 'How can I live?' The answer to this question in a broad general way can be found by attaining an understanding of a subject called Economics.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
People lament for their losses because it´s easier mourn for the past than avoid them in present.
~ L.F. Magister