Quotes About Present

I love you. I love you without the memories. I love you right now." Isabelle said in a calm voice, "I know." Simon stared at her. "Was that...," he said slowly. "Was that a Star Wars reference? Because if it was, I would like to declare my love all over again.

Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.

He wrestled his focus back to his present dilemma. The two of them standing in a cheap hotel room with nothing to do besides the obvious things a man and woman could do in a room with not much more than bed in it.

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

I had this tendency to think things through a little too much, envisioning things in the future while I completely missed the present.

Today exists between yesterday and tomorrow.

The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'.

It's today I must be living.

By staying in the moment as much as possible. And accepting what is.

Don't waste any energy on anything but what's in front of you.

He says the part that's driving us crazy is trying to fix a future that isn't even here yet. He says when it gets here, then we can figure out how to get through it. But now it's just driving us crazy because it's all unknown. So we just have to stay in the moment we're in. You know. Take things on one moment at a time.

You have to dance especially at a time like this. That's the whole point. The dancing will bring you back into the moment. It's the dance that will save you.

the divisions of time had gone on vacation, leaving just a crush of constant moments.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the remaindering.

why worry about a thing that may never come to pass? Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

there is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other.

It's my own little joke, even though the punchline is sadness. I think a joke like that is a present you make to yourself, so every time you say it, even if it hurts, you get a very cohesive feeling out of it, because the past you and the present you are talking to each other, and it's nice to have friends.

It's hard, dusty work, but Papo always says if you don't ride the present like the devil it'll get right away from you because it's a feral little creature with a terrible personality and no natural predators.

Life outraces memory.

History so often is. Especially when it's not history but is now.

Why worry about what might or might not happen when the heart is longing only to drink in the breath of this moment?

To truly feel gratitude is to sprawl out into the light of the present. It is happiness, I think. To be indebted is to fixate on the future.

My home was a provisional space in which the present was always wasted in dreaded anticipation of the future.