Quotes About Present

In those moments that burst alive the present lasts for ever, and I know there are many more presents to live. I understand. I understand you can be free. I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it.

You cannot know the future. You look at the news and it looks terrifying. But you can never be sure. That is the whole thing with the future. You don't know. At some point you have to accept that you don't know. You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you are on.

In those moments that burst alive the present lasts forever, and I know there are many more presents to live.

You are you. The past is the past. The only way to make a better life is from inside the present. To focus on regret does nothing but turn that very present into another thing you will wish you did differently. Accept your own reality. Be human enough to make mistakes. Be human enough not to dread the future. Be human enough to be, well, enough. Accepting where you are in life makes it so much easier to be happy for other people without feeling terrible about yourself.

4. There is absolutely nothing in the past that you can change. That's basic physics.

There are billions of different versions of an older you. There is one version of the present you. Focus on that.

we are encouraged to desire this state of affairs. 'Embrace' the future and 'let go' of the past. The whole of consumerism is based on us wanting the next thing rather than the present thing we already have. This is an almost perfect recipe for unhappiness.

El pasado y el futuro son mitos. El pasado no es más que un presente muerto y el futuro, en cualquier caso, nunca existirá, porque para cuando uno llega al futuro ya se ha convertido en presente.

Als je je zorgen maakt om de dingen die je niet weet, zoals de toekomst, helpt het om te denken aan dingen die je wél weet.

Je hoeft het leven niet te begrijpen. Je hoeft het alleen maar te léven.

Remember When we were young enough Not to fear tomorrow Or mourn yesterday And we were just Us And time was just Now And we were in Life Not rising through Like arms in a sleeve Because we had time We had time to breathe

We are too aware of numerical time and not aware enough of natural time.

Forever, Emily Dickinson said, is composed of nows. But how do you inhabit the now you are in? How do you stop the ghosts of all the other nows from getting in? How, in short, do you live? I am drifting away.

I am coming to realise how wrong many of my aspirations have been. How locked out of the present I have found myself. How I have always wanted more of whatever was in front of me. I need to find a way to stay still, in the present, and, as my nan used to say, be happy with what you have.

Avem nevoie de timpul pe care il avem deja

advised I take things "one day at a time," as if there were another way for days to be experienced.

Maar het punt is: je weet niet wat de toekomst brengen zal. Je kijkt naar het nieuws en dat lijkt angstaanjagend. Maar je weet het nooit zeker. Dat is het hele punt met de toekomst. Je weet het niet. Op een gegeven moment moet je accepteren dat je het niet weet. Je moet ophouden met vooruit te bladeren en je gewoon concentreren op de bladzijde waar je bent.

That is the nature of things. History was -is- a one-way street. You have to keep walking forwards. But you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.

Remember when we were young enough not to fear tomorrow or mourn yesterday And we were just Us And time was just Now And we were in Life

There is only the present.

It's true. You make the wrong decision in the present and it haunts you, just as the Treaty of Versailles in nineteen nineteen sowed the ground for Hitler to take power in nineteen thirty-three, so every present moment is paying for a future one. Just one wrong turn can get you very lost. What you do in the present stays with you. It comes back. You don't get away with anything.

and advised I take things 'one day at a time', as if there were another way for days to be experienced.

The past was just the present that had died and the future would never exist anyway, because by the time we got to it, the future would have turned into the present. The present was all there was. The ever-moving, ever-changing present. And the present was fickle. It could only be caught by letting go.

so every present moment is paying for a future one.