Quotes About Present

There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.

Your whole life has been a long road leading directly to this moment

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

The cold Duke was afraid of Now, for Now has warmth and urgency, and Then is dead and buried.

Let us not go back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we arrived at this point. Understanding our past is central to our ability to understand ourselves and the world around us. We need to know our history, and according to sociologist C. Wright Mills, we know we do.8

There is a reciprocal relationship between truth about the past and justice in the present. When we achieve justice in the present, remedying some past event or practice, then we can face it and talk about it more openly, precisely because we have made it right. It has become a success story.

When textbooks make racism invisible in American history, they obstruct our already poor ability to see it in the present.

Monuments look static - carved in stone and all - but their meanings change as the present changes and as people enact new rituals at them.

Making the present seem inevitable robs history of all its life and much of its meaning.

Not many of us realize that we truly only live one day at a time. So live today.

Time is there for a purpose, to keep things in order. Once you change chronology you change history. The past could eat up the present . . .

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Teach us...... that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes.

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

Let go of the past because its remembrance will give you pleasure.

Dopo questo discorso il volto del Capitano Wentworth assunse per un'attimo un'espressione particolare...ma si trattò di un solo breve attimo di intima ironia e non venne colto dai nessuno dei presenti che lo conoscevano meno di lei.

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow

Living each day as it came, rather than projecting some fanciful mirage on the distant future, was becoming a way of life.

Live in the present, he said, and trust in God through darkness, pain and fear. Then, as he quoted the biblical passage from Corinthians God will not suffer you to be tested more than you are able

Live every day to its fullest, and do not be a slave to your hopes for the future. If you do not learn to enjoy today you will not enjoy the future no matter what it may bring.

You rule your experiences from the focal point of your present, where your beliefs directly intercept with the body and the physical world on the one hand, and the invisible world from which you draw your energy and strength on the other.

The point of power is in the present. Whenever possible, minimize the importance of a problem. Forget a problem and it will go away. Dumb advice, surely, or so it seems. Yet children know the truth of it. Minimize impediments in your mind and they do become minimized. Exaggerate impediments in your mind and in reality they will quickly adopt giant size.