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Quotes About Present

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No matter what happens, it's always now.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Rant Casey used to say, No matter what happens, it's always now... Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's not a big deal [...]. We do it every day. Kill the unborn to save the elderly. [...] every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Somos y ya está, y lo que pasa, simplemente pasa.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Das Einzige, was die Gegenwart genießbar macht, ist die Tatsache, dass die Vergangenheit manchmal eine Folter war.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Así es tu vida, y se consume minuto a minuto.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Sometimes what happened now was more important to her than what would happen later, so to hell with it.
~ Chuck Wendig
Do not assume tomorrow will come. Car crash, heart attack, panda mauling; no promises that you'll see the day after today. What you do get is today. You're here right now, so don't waste it. Today is always the day you have. Tomorrow is always a day away. Something-something
~ Chuck Wendig
The very existence of concepts such as justice, democracy and hospitality enables the promise of something beyond all conceived present possibilities: the only impossibility is the determination in advance that certain events would be impossible.
~ Claire Colebrook
Destroy him! We are special!" "What value is there in being special?" "In my past life, I was a warrior! Just as I am in the present!" "But how does your past life help you now?
~ CLAMP
for a Christmas present. They read it just after they had hung up their stockings before one of the big fireplaces in their house. Afterward, they learned it
~ Clement C. Moore
Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.
~ Clive Barker
Abaratians are very much about living in the moment; living life because that's what we've got, we've got today, we've got now, we've got being alive now and we have to be awake and alive in the moment and not asleep in our lives. And they would find the idea of sleeping through your life, of being bored - they would think that was very stupid - why would you be bored when there's so much to do and so much to see and so much to be?
~ Clive Barker
This will not come again. Nor this. Nor this....
~ Clive Barker
Live every minute as if you are late for the last train.
~ Colson Whitehead
Strivers grasped for something better-and crooks schemes about how to manipulate the present system. The world as it might be versus the world as it was. But perhaps Carney was being too stark. Plenty of crooks were strivers, and plenty of strivers bent the law.
~ Colson Whitehead
The class focused on US history since the Civil War, but at every opportunity Mr. Hill guided them to the present, linking what had happened a hundred years ago to their current lives. They'd set off down one road at the beginning of class and it always led back to their doorsteps. Mr.
~ Colson Whitehead
The class focused on US history since the Civil War, but at every opportunity Mr. Hill guided them to the present, linking what had happened a hundred years ago to their current lives. They'd set off down one road at the beginning of class and it always led back to their doorsteps.
~ Colson Whitehead
I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.
~ Colum McCann
Be grateful for the moment in Time.
~ Victoria Christopher Murray
Happiness comes from accepting the present situation, whether it's something you wish to savor as long as possible or change as quickly as you can. Neither is possible without acceptance as the starting point, because without acceptance, you are living on the periphery of your life. There at the edges, you can't fully enjoy the god stuff or do anything about the rest
~ Victoria Moran