Quotes About Present

There is only the present. Just as every object on earth contains similar and interchanging atoms, so every fragment of time contains aspects of every other. Yes. It is clear. In those moments that burst alive the present last 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. I am no longer drowning in my past, or fearful of my future. How can I be? The future is you.

she was now proud of and pleased with, a truth she had not only come to terms with but welcomed openly, with every fiery molecule of her being. A truth that she scribbled hastily but firmly, pressing deep into the paper with the nib, in capital letters, in the first-person present tense. A truth that was the beginning and seed of everything possible. A former curse and a present blessing. Three simple words containing the power and potential of a multiverse. I AM ALIVE.

Past and future were myths. 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.

Past and future were myths. 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.

And we risk only ever looking above to the future or below to the past and never around at the infinite horizontal landscape of the present. The trouble with ladders is they give you no room to move around. Just room to fall.

the past is important to learn from, but not to live in. The future is important for your direction but not to be so consumed in that you can't enjoy the present.

Keep in mind that your past self does not exist anymore and your present self should realize that.

Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have liv'd light in the spring, To have lov'd, to have thought, to have done; To have advanc'd true friends, and beat down baffling foes; That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And while we dream on this Lose our present state, And relegate to worlds yet distant our repose? Empedocles on Etna: Act I, Scene II

The only thing you can control in this life is what you do and how you choose to live the next few minutes. There is no place else to go but here.

there are other dangers to conservatism and to the civilization conservatives are defending than the liberal Establishment, and that to fight liberalism without guarding against these dangers runs the risk of ending in a situation as bad as or worse than our present one.

The past is always just a memory; the future, just a dream. The only real moment is the Now.

There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday; if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today.Thus all there is to it .

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

the regrettable past should be left to languish wherever it took itself when it was finished being the enjoyable present

They simply try to be all they can be, here and now, and that brings with it a happiness all its own.

Embrace the now, and the future will be richer and more abundant because you had the wisdom, courage, and discipline to embrace this moment.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

The present is an age of philosophy; and America, the empire of reason," said the American revolutionary Joel Barlow. 5 I aim to show that he was mostly right about that.

Don't ruminate about the past! Don't anticipate the future! Don't cogitate about the present! Not tampering with it Leave mind just as is This very instant Aware Relaxed Beyond this, there's not a damn thing!113

The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.

In depression, all that is happening in the present is the anticipation of pain in the future, and the present qua present no longer exists at all.

History is a more or less bunk, the only history that is worth a damn is what we make today.

Days lived, whether full or empty, whether busy or serene, are but days gone by, and the ashes of the past weigh the same in every hand. Had

tout semble indiquer qu'il [le passé] ne se conserve pas, mais qu'on le reconstruit en partant du présent.