Quotes About Present

To those not yet old, being old means you've been. But being old also means that despite, in addition to, and in excess of your beenness, you still are. Your beenness is very much alive. You still are, and one is as haunted by the still-being and its fullness as by the having-already-been, by the pastness. Think of old age this way: it's just an everyday fact that one's life is at stake.

Because history is not the background—history is the stage! And you are on the stage! Oh, how sickening is your appalling ignorance of your own times!

Play the moment, play whatever plays for you in that moment, and then go to the next moment. It doesn't matter where you're going. Don't worry about that. Just take it moment, moment, moment, moment.

Any good that I may do, let me do it now, for I may not pass this way again.

Do not think of tomorrow. Enjoy the now, for it is all any of us ever have.

the world was created this morning. No such thing as the past …

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Sufficient unto the moment is the appearance of reality

Every Communist revolution begins as a rape of the present and continues as a cannibalization of the past.

If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

If how we tell history is one of the ways we shape our present and future, we can do no better than to rethink the myth of the First Thanksgiving and its role in the Thanksgiving holiday.

I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.

We move in time, but God operates in eternity. He sees the end from the beginning. He cannot be taken by surprise, for our past, present, and future are before Him and in His grip all at once. An emergency to you or me is an opportunity in the great mosaic

Carmack was of the moment. His ruling force was focus. Time existed for him not in some promising future or sentimental past but in the present condition, the intricate web of problems and solutions, imagination and code.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.

The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.

It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.

Anticipation is no longer needed- because the moment is now.

The past and future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

No past. No future. Just present. Give it a chance.

I am trying not to think of what will happen next. I am trying not to think of endings.

The past and the future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple. And the simplicity is the sensation of it being just her and me.

you live each day one at a time you live every day all at once you live with the possibility of good-bye you move on.