Quotes About Present

Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet a smudge, the slate still blank, there is only the present moment: each vital detail, shocked color, the fall of light. Like film stills. The mind relentlessly open to the world, deeply impressed, even hurt by it: not yet gauzed by memory.

Try to live as though it were morning

Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.

Zorba sees everything everyday as if for the first time.

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

Make your days count. Don't invest all your efforts in the future. You miss too much of the now.

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.

Life--you have to live it as it comes.

It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.

It takes a bit of time, but why hurry through the day just to get to the next?

I find that when you look too far ahead, you end up tripping over the present. Let's just worry about the now, Jared." When he lifted her hand to his lips, Savannah realized that now was going to be trouble enough.

You couldn't erase the past, or kill it, or wish it out of existence. Nor could you will away the present or change what was coming. We were all trapped in that cycle of time, just circling around the core of yesterdays. Sometimes those yesterdays were strong enough, willful enough, to suck you back no matter how hard you struggled.

You're thinking too much. Try being in the moment. It'll amaze you.

The future is purchased by the present. —SAMUEL JOHNSON

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What happens before matters because it shapes things. But who you were a year ago isn't as important as who you are now.

Make your days count. Don't invest all your efforts in the future. You miss too much of the now.

Can't fix what used to be, only what's now and coming up.

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time was just a hangover from the past with no present meaning

I believe that time is like a train, with men hanging out in front of the engine and off the back of the caboose; the man in front is laying down new tracks the moment before the train touches them and the man in the caboose is tearing up the rails the moment they are passed. There is no linear continuation: The past disappears, the future is unimagined, and the present is ephemeral. It cannot be traversed.

But its more illuminating feature is something that often happens with popular history: An attempt at analyzing the distant past ends up being more astute about the living present.

We'll never be as young as we are tonight.

So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.