Quotes About Present

The present is swollen with self-regard for itself, but soon enough the present becomes the past. This present, this day, this very moment we inhabit--it all will be held accountable for the things it didn't know, didn't understand.

The present is swollen with self-regard for itself, but soon enough the present becomes the past. This present, this day, this very moment we inhabit—it all will be held accountable for the things it didn't know, didn't understand.

Maybe the point is just to get through one hour, and then another, and not think farther ahead than that.

The way I see it, nothing in life is a rehearsal. It's not preparation for anything else. There's no getting ready for it. There's no waiting for the real part to begin. Not ever.

This is how it is now. This is my life.

She had become unmoored from the present, loose and untethered, her mind rolling back into her memories, rolling forward into the future, anticipating, and then dropping again into this torturous, unbearable present.

At the very least, your idea can change your organization. But it won't go anywhere unless you know how to present it to those in power—and fight for it through the worst of their criticism.

Aparentemente, saborear va de la mano con la sensación de que el tiempo pasa con más lentitud".

Constantly minding time is more challenging than letting it slip unnoticed into the past. It is also never done.

If you take nothing else from this book, I hope you remember this: Success is possible, even in the midst of a complex and occasionally chaotic life. You do not need to wait for some less-hectic future time to become the person you want to be. With a different perspective, and a focus on doing what you can, you can be that person now.

Heavenly Father, you must think us such silly creatures, always worrying about tomorrow and letting today slip by.

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

How long have people thought about the present as having weight, as being a thing disconnected from other things, as an obstacle to living?

I don't need protection." Not that she minded, of course. She always protected. It's what she did every moment of the day, and that small span of time when he'd protected her had been, well like a present. "Don't need it, no." He gave her the coordinates, and she got moving. "Deservie it, yes.

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

It must be the nowness of this disease that, in stealing the past and obscuring the future, forces us, the healthy and the ill, to stay in the moment.

But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.

I almost fell into the trap of thinking too much about the moment instead of living the moment, which would have been disastrous, because once I start thinking like that, it's hard to stop.

Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

Maybe you can afford to wait… but for some of us, there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

But the reflections came clear to me then, come still in quiet moments when past meets present so smoothly the seams disappear and time itself turns fluid. Sometimes I wish time stayed solid, in separable chunks as distinct as the sound of the ticking clock on my mantel. In truth, though, we break all boundaries, hurtling forward through hope and backward on the trail made by memory.

Here is a big occult secret: Time flows in both directions at once! In other words, we are not only being carried along into the future on an ocean wave of time, but the future is at this very moment flowing toward us! The point where we meet head-on is the present.

One must engage life on whatever plane is presenting itself to you now.