Quotes About Present

We have all unknowingly entered into agreements or soul contracts in the spirit world which direct our behavior in the present moment.

The Demiurge always wants people to worry about the future. He doesn't want people to live in the present, in the now.

The more complex your lives become with intellectual machinations, piles of paper, and social intrigue, the less you are aware of the Simplicity of the Moment.

being around animals, I am always reminded that the only real moment in life is now.

Unfortunately there are many kinds of psychotherapy and many psychotherapists involved with trying to prove themselves and their own theories rather than working with what is. In fact they find it very frightening to work with what is.

It seems backward, but keeping your mind focused on the present will get you further toward your goals than keeping your mind focused on the goal itself.

Face aux archipels du passé, solides et insubmersibles, le présent incertain et précaire perdait toute consistance. Le réel ne résistait pas aux reflux de la mémoire.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

I live only in the moment in this strange, unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

One can only forget about time by making use of it.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

All stones are close to us. The last is behind us. (Toutes les pierres sont près de nous. - La dernière est derrière nous.) [Fables1, The Bird and its Sun / L'Oiseau et son Soleil]

People conjugate to the present; politics to other tenses. (Peuple conjugue au présent; - Politique aux autres temps.)

The present is the equilibrium of the past and the future. (Le présent, c'est l'équilibre Du passé et du futur)

I am the Ghost of Christmas Present.

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.

Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!

In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.

Heaven, we were all going direct the other way— in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

It's in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

So true are these avowals at the present day, that I can now only take the reader into one confidence more. Of all my books, I like this the best. It will be easily

I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!" Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. "The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. Oh Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob; on my knees!