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Quotes About Present

History is a chaotic system. The details can shift endlessly, but the overall shape remains constant. Make a small change in the past, and it changes enough details in the present that we would not have come together at exactly this place and time to watch exactly this scene. And yet the great movements of history would be largely unchanged.
~ Orson Scott Card
I hate to tell but now is all there ever is.
~ Confucius
There is no later. This is later.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People are always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
~ Cormac McCarthy
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nessuna lista di cose da fare. Ogni giornata sufficiente a se stessa. Ogni ora. Non c'è un dopo. Il dopo è già qui. Tutte le cose piene di grazia e bellezza che ci portiamo nel cuore hanno un'origine comune nel dolore. Nascono dal cordoglio e dalle ceneri. Ecco, sussurrò al bambino addormentato. Io ho te.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If I could plan my life I wouldnt want to live it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Il presente è il tempo più prezioso
~ Cormac McCarthy
The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME~ Old Wrinkly
~ Cressida Cowell
If you're going to start a new life, you might as well start it NOW.
~ Cressida Cowell
The past haunts the present in mores ways than we realize. It certainly scares the living daylights out of me.
~ Cressida Cowell
If you're going to start a new life, you might as well start it NOW.
~ Cressida Cowell
Stories come from somewhere, said the witch. The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
~ Cressida Cowell
Time cannot tick backward
~ Cressida Cowell
Her past, she fears, is eclipsing her present.
~ Cristina García
For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Don't ask me anything about the future," he said miserably. "I don't know anything. Be with me now, will you, no matter what it is?" And she took him in her arms.
~ D.H. Lawrence
For Connie had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything.
~ D.H. Lawrence
From the nature of reality in our life experience at the present time, we say these sliding doors are new, or the ceiling is old. We imagine that this ceiling was made several decades or several centuries ago because of its present nature of appearing old. Yet in reality, only the present exists. The past and the future do not exist [separate from the present].
~ D?gen
If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.
~ Dainin Katagiri
The moment that you are living right now is a very important opportunity to make your life vividly alive.
~ Dainin Katagiri
before your mind starts to work and you want to run away, accept every moment as an opportunity presented to you to practice facing reality as it really is.
~ Dainin Katagiri