Quotes About Present

We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this was the real condition of humanity: The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simmple, sel-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate . To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away

So there existed fathers who dealt in the present, who didn't drag ancient history around like a ball and chain. So there were men who were not neck-deep and sinking in the quagmire of the past.

We have to take care of the moment and then move on to the next. We can't worry about what's to come.

A avut ea vreodat? ceva în afar? de prezent? se întreb?, dar a refuzat mereu s? se lase în voia prezentului, a încercat s?-l st?pâneasc?, cu mesajele ei de directoare, cu toate planurile pe care le-a f?cut, È™i acum prezentul îi spune: Eu nu sunt un ecou al amintirilor din trecut, nu sunt o punte spre planuri de viitor, eu sunt tot ce ai, chintesenÈ›a existenÈ›ei tale, ai încredere în mine fiindc? n-ai de ales.

What is done with one's vision of the past has enormous implications for how present realities are handled and the quality of idealism that can be applied to shaping the future.

The present was too urgent to let the past intrude.

Next month and next year were other times. No need to mix them up with the present.

Whatever I'm doing at that moment, I try to only focus on that because I'm already ADD.

I take my time to do things and I never plan in advance. It's one step at a time for me. I'd like to stick to that.

Everyone has a past, but I try not to let that affect the way I see them; I want to get to know who they are today.

I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.

I've always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you.

Sometimes when you look back, you think I wish I would have played this hand differently or that hand differently. But then you have to understand that you can't go back and to focus on the present. Whether or not you're applying the lessons you've learned from mistakes you've made in the past.

Enjoy the moment and appreciate what you have.

Human life is sadly fertile in situations where, as a result of either too much meditation or of some catastrophe, our thoughts seem to hold to nothing; they have no substance, no point of departure, and the present has no hooks by which to hold to the past or fasten on the future.

Is it not necessary, in order to produce the slightest change, that the most daring dreams of the past century become the most trite ideas of the present one?

He says to me, Ranulph, he says... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that the past is made of the present, and that the present is always here.

It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched made his fingers too sticky to be of the slightest use.

Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that Fate allows you.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.