Quotes About Present

Nos falta confianza en el presente, en el momento actual, en la visión efectiva, porque nuestra cultura nos dice que debemos confiar solo en lo que se ha conseguido y explicado en el pasado, en lo que se ha formulado de forma pública, lo que se ha editado, lo que se ha expuesto siguiendo los parámetros de una perspectiva claramente artística o claramente científica.

Sau dac? cel puÈ›in aÈ™ fi evocat amintirea unui reproÈ™, ar fi fost mai bine decât aceast? înmormântare absolut?, aceast? minciun? neomeneasc?, tic?loas?, stuid?, c? trecutul nostru nu ar fi în acelaÈ™i timp prezentul nostru, c? ceea ce am f?cut sau am simÈ›it atunci a fost într-un fel r?u È™i absurd...imatur.

We lack trust in the present, this moment, this actual seeing, because our culture tells us to trust only the reported back, the publicly framed, the edited, the thing set in the clearly artistic or the clearly scientific angle of perspective.

When people say their goal in life is to be happy they are telling you they are miserable. Thinking of happiness as a project, they look for fulfillment at some future time. The present slips by, and anxiety creeps in. (…) so they turn to philosophy, and nowadays therapy, which offer relief from their unease.

How do you survive for years in prison? You don't think about years, or months, or weeks. You think about today—how to get through it, how to survive it. When you wake up tomorrow, another day is behind you. The days add up; the weeks run together; the months become years. You realize how tough you are, how you can function and survive because you have no choice.

Don't waste a second but never hurry.

He was not the nostalgic type. You live life today, not tomorrow, certainly not yesterday, he always said.

Her thoughts could not escape the present.

The present is a text, and the past its interpretation.

It is a consuming knowledge, an overwhelming sadness for what is lost that makes enjoyment of the present impossible.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

JUST THINK OF THIS AS MY LITTLE GIFT TO YOU, says Owen Meany

but you live your life at the time you live it—you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

Life is what is happening today while you were planning tomorrow

La vida es aquello que ta sucediendo mientras te empeñas en hacer otros planes.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions

For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.

I Love the one who you are in the Past .Not the one who you are in the Present.

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.