Quotes About Present

I found that this life is a gift, and everything that comes with it is a gift.

I'm not someone who likes to plan too much ahead.

I'm the kind of person that likes what I'm doing when I'm doing it.

I just live life and I do not think about what will happen.

We live life in the present.

Most of the time I'm really not aware of what I am doing. I'm just so locked into the moment.

I really have no long-term goals.

I don't live in a would of looking back.

I try to live in the moment and I learn from my losses.

Today is the first day in history. -One of Nathan's Daily Gems From the 'Book Store ON Main Street' Seal Beach, CA

We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real sense, memories are tied to and describe the present. Formed in an idiosyncratic way when they happened, they're also true to the moment of recall, including how you feel, all you've experienced, and new values, passions, and vulnerability. One never steps into the same stream of consciousness twice.

Every day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death.

Every moment is great, we were taught, every moment s unique.

He raised his head to work out whether the memory was genuine or whether it was some reverse echo by which the present seems to duplicate itself in the past.

He raised his head to work out whether the memory was genuine or whether it was some curious reverse echo by which the present seems to duplicate itself

We are rushing, always thinking of the future, of our destination, focusing on what is four hours, or four hundred miles, or four years ahead, and constantly missing what is right there, just then, at the moment.

The legacy of the past is the foundation of the present.

Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

I don't want to miss anything.

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me--and I long to mention it myself, I start subjects leading up to it, and then feel myself going red. I keep swearing to myself not to speak of him again- and then an opportunity occurs and I jump at it.

If someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me - and I long to mention it myself. I start subjects leading up to it, and then I feel myself going red. I keep swearing to myself not to speak to him again - and then an opportunity occurs and I jump at it!

The longness and shortness of the present moment can be recognized by utilizing a big image of the moon, which is reflecting on the surface of the ocean, and a small image of the moon on the surface of a cup of water, or in another example the very wide scale of the whole sky itself, and the very narrow space of the moon, which is shining in the sky.

Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find. It is being sucked out of the world to make way for the future of uncontrolled markets and huge investment potential. The future becomes insistent. This is why something will happen soon, maybe today…to correct the acceleration of time. Bring nature back to normal, more or less.