Quotes About Present

The problem with people is that they see the problem before the solution, set up in failures more than the successes and live longer past than the present.

The time just passes quickly when we are involved with something that makes us pay more attention in moment than the clocks pointer.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.

Mais, après avoir accordé un sourire à ce roman d'autrefois, il revint aussitôt à l'unique objet de ses préoccupations actuelles.

Instead, I had been pushed further and further into a fate from which no escape or reprieve seemed possible. And so there came a moment when I stopped struggling, when I decided that I would cease making any more plans to return to the old days. I made up my mind to look upon the present as exactly what it was: it was all I had. To add to my sense that my curse had turned into a blessing, not only was I free—I was no longer alone.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

There is the past, and there is the future," he had said to his brothers and sisters not long ago. "The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other." He'd been wrong. There was only the present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other.

We are alive and in the same world

Existe el pasado, y también el futuro. El presente no es más que el único segundo que divide la una a la otra...

Existe el pasado y existe el futuro», les había dicho a sus hermanos y hermanas no hacía tanto. «El presente no es más que el breve instante que separa uno de otro.»

Let us leave the past, shall we? The present give us more than enough to talk about, and then, of course, there is the future.

There was only the present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

Grief seemed to constitute a kind of connective membrane, not a divide, and the "fragile film of the present" felt strengthened, not threatened, by the past. Tears, it struck her—even ones that spilled out of your mouth or off a table—formed a fretwork the wingless could learn to walk over, if there had been enough of them and you tried. She wondered if Noah had

Grief seemed to constitute a kind of connective membrane, not a divide, and the 'fragile film of the present' felt strengthened, not threatened, by the past. Tears, it struck her—even ones that spilled out of your mouth or off a table—formed a fretwork the wingless could learn to walk over, if there had been enough of them and you tried.

Dalam hidup ada saat-saat ketika masa depan dengan cepat diucapkan, justru karena yang sepenuhnya berkuasa adalah masa kini

it is the present that rules, and the present always changes, often so fast it can hardly be experienced.

Billy Graham was for the hereafter. I'm for the here and now.

Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don't have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in -- then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.