Quotes About Present

Forget the past cause you can't change it...and forget the present...cause I didn't get you one.

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow

I don't care who was before me, as long as there is no one during me

Just because we are free to do what we wants does not mean we will ever be self-assured. Having the power to determine action without restraint does not mean we are free to do anything we want; it means we are free to do what we should, given the situation. Living in the present is as beautiful as it gets!

The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the past

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.

There's no time like the present. Any time is better than now.

Carpe Diem - Or maybe this day doesn't like being seized. . .

I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time.

Some of the dirtiest dogs, past and present, had mothers.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now

It was a big base of my performance art ... the idea of here and now ... not something that's happening in the past or the future. It's always happening. It's always now.... Only what matters is the present.

El futuro nos tortura y el pasado nos encadena. He ahí por qué se nos escapa el presente. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Al no estar la mente enfocada en el aquí y en el ahora, sino como suele decirse coloquialmente «dando vueltas por los cerros de Úbeda», no solo perdemos mucha información de lo que está ocurriendo en el presente, sino que, además, quedamos atrapados en eventos que ocurrieron en el pasado o que pueden ocurrir en el futuro, y que suelen asociarse con sentimientos de culpa o con estados de ansiedad.

Se es o no se es, no importa el día.

Hay ayeres y mañanas, pero no hay hoyes

Está aquí, como una limitada, como una insólita, accesible felicidad, y yo, con las disculpables culpas que tú y yo conocemos, y que sólo me molestan como un mal menor [...] quiero asir la ocasión, quiero ofrecerme a él, porque él es el presente y yo creo en el presente

De vez en cuando es bueno ser consciente de que hoy, de que ahora, estamos fabricando las nostalgias que descongelarán algún futuro.

Oh, this here and now, this particular snapshot fragment of forever.

She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.

Sometimes remembering means to live a moment in the past again, and in that way survive the present.

Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future.

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead. The grand and the simple. They are equally wonderful.