Quotes About Present

O português confessa sentir inveja de não ter duas línguas. E poder usar uma delas para perder o passado. E outra para ludibriar o presente.

Saudade de um tempo? Tenho saudade é de não haver tempo.

In order to slip from beneath the crushing weight of future thoughts, I adopted a technique of focusing solely on the moment I was living. In itself, removed from the time line that stretched forward and backward from the present, no single moment was that bad.

The room was growing lighter, and so was the lieutenant's mood. He steered his thoughts away from the past and into the present. With the zeal of a man content with his place, he began to think about today's phase of the cleanup campaign.

John Comaroff, an anthropologist, has written that history is 'any succession of rupturing events which together bring to recognition our misunderstandings and misrecognition of the present'.

I don't want to screw up today's work and tomorrow's worrying about yesterday's and I don't want to focus on what it looks like on the outside when the performance has to come from within me. I want to be in the moment now, getting it right from the inside.

I do like to laugh. I remember Roger Moore, years ago, saying to me "Cheer up. You'd better have a good time because this is not a rehearsal, this is life. This is the show.

How difficult it is to see even what's in front of one's eyes. All we possess is the present, and the present endlessly dissolves into the past." Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live

As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...

The notion that one must know history in order to understand the present has a certain justification when applied to the history of events, but not for the structural history of society. Rather, the opposite is the case: to examine the *constitution* of a particular social and economic structure, one has to be already familiar with the *completed* structure. Only then will one know what to look for in history.

Nostalgia n-are insa nici in clin, nici in maneca cu estetica, nu e nici macar legata de amintirile fericite; ai nostalgia unui anume loc pentru ca pur si simplu ai trait acolo, bine sau rau nici nu conteaza, trecutul e intotdeauna frumos, ca si viitor de altfel, doar prezentul doare, doar prezentul pe care il tarasti dupa tine ca pe un butoi mustind de suferinta, intre doua nesfarsiri de blanda fericire.

They have hopes and dreams that may echo or overlap your own. And there's no reason why you can't make room for them. But what's happening to you right now, precisely at this instant, belongs only to you. Own it... This is your moment. Let someone else take the picture... just smile.

Still, what's happened before and what may happen later can't be as important as what's happening now.

We can all take something positive from the class of 2020; to accept what has happened in the past, to embrace the present, and to remain open to the probability that it will get better in the future. I hear echoes of Stephen Pollan in that advice: With gratitude, optimism becomes sustainable.

Recovering alcoholics have an expression: "If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today." With all that's happened, it's been liberating to understand that I don't have to carry the weight of all my disappointments or expectations. Sometimes it just is what it is. I can accept that.

Earth is heaven, here and now, if you can't accept that reality." "How do I do that?" "Know who you are.

It's clear that our present sins need present forgiveness, not for the purpose of salvation but as part of our relationship with the Father.

Whatever you want to do, do it know. There are only so many tomorrows.

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

Each day is a lifetime.

The past is gone, the future unknown, so set all your clocks n watches to - Right Now Time - and live your life in the Right Now.

Life is a gift... Enjoy the present

The words yesterday and tomorrow might have been excised from their vocabulary: for yesterday had entertained nothing that was worth today's speech, and tomorrow could promise no change from today.