Quotes About Present

I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

and time becomes a forgotten detail.

If we spend too much time reliving the past, it gets us nowhere." "That's where I am, Rafe. Nowhere.

If we spend too much time reliving the past, it gets us nowhere,

thankfulness for this one moment, regardless of what the morrow might bring.

Write it down, before you forget. And each day we do. But we can only write about Now. Before is already gone, except for the nightmares.

The past has its own plans. And more often than not, the past finds a way into the here and now.

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.

Clare's dark brows arched. "How can one piece of wood be more moral than another?" "The mace saves a lady from bending over and exposing her ankles to whatever depraved males are present," he explained.

Sufficient unto the day were the evils thereof.

Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.

The beginning is always today.

Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present. G. MACDONALD.

I love best to have each thing in its season, doing without it at all other times. I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time too. H. D. THOREAU. July

The past is only the present become invisible and mute and because it is invisible and mute, its memoried glances and it's murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

You're not where you were, and you're not where you're going. You're here, so pay attention!

The girl sounded uncharacteristically bashful as she offered her gift. It was a small, hand-sewn pillow, with one word embroidered crookedly on its front. Loveawoo, it said.

Epictetus. The words in questions were, I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived—and dying I will tend to later.

Epictetus tells us that regret is a waste of our emotional energy. We cannot change the past—it is outside of our control. We can, and should, learn from it, but the only situations we can do something about are those happening here and now.

questa tendenza a ricordare male il passato uno dei motivi principali per cui ci sembra che oggi le cose vadano peggio.

Regulate your mind. Do not worry excessively about the future. If you have done everything that has to be done, the future will take care of itself.