Quotes About Present

Don't waste your life on if-onlys. - Mr. Morrison, Humane Society volunteer

Tilda cared nothing for the future, and had, as a result, a great capacity for happiness.

One day we shall die. But all the other days we shall be alive.

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The future from its cradle, and the past / Out of its grave, and make the present last / In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, / Folded within their own eternity.

Joy, joy, joy! Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers, And the future is dark, and the present is spread, Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head.

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You lived in the present, but that present always contained a past, some image of a ruined paradise.

If life is a book, then read it while you can. Don't save up any pages for later, because there might not be one.

12. Time Urgency. I am not in danger. I do not need to rush. I will not hurry unless it is a true emergency. I am learning to enjoy doing my daily activities at a relaxed pace.

Emoting is when we cry, anger out, or verbally ventilate the energy of an inner emotional experience. Feeling, on the other hand, is the inactive process of staying present to internal emotional experience without reacting. In recovery then, feeling is surrendering to our internal experiences of pain without judging or resisting them, and without emoting them out.

The most common transferrential dynamic that I witness occurs when leftover hurt about a parent gets displaced onto someone we perceive as hurting us in the present. When this occurs, we respond to them with a magnified anger or anguish that is

The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage, into our own suffering. We often hold the tacit assumption that all of our suffering stems from events in the past. But, whatever the initial seed of trauma, the deeper truth is that our suffering is more closely a result of how we deal with the effect these past events have on us in the present.

I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable

El pasado siempre se ve mejor cuando uno lo recuerda, de lo que le pareció en su momento. Y el presente jamás se ve tan bueno como parecerá en el futuro. Si uno pasa demasiado tiempo reviviendo viejas alegrías, llega a ser deprimente. Se llega a pensar que jamás volverá a vivir tan bien.

This is why Rastignac's and Lucien's tailor thinks of himself as a "hyphen" between a young man's present and his future. Given the right outfit, a young man may be able to make a marriage that will put a reality behind his social appearance.

One can't ever be sure what is more valuable: what has gone away, or what remains.

Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

The Adam story, then, is not simply about the past. It's about Israel's present brought into the past—even as far past as the beginning of the human drama itself.

Think of the resurrection as God unexpectedly going off script and bringing into the present time a bit of the future.

These diverse stories of the past that we find in the Bible are not a problem to be solved. They model for us the spiritual immediacy of the present.

What is at stake is a faith that can actually remain sustainable and meaningful because it listens to the challenges of the present as we follow the God who is always out ahead of us, ready to surprise us.

Which to me means that one must respect not just the story but the way in which it develops; judging the past by the standards of the present sheds little light on understanding, it represents no more than the I-told-you-sos of history.

For my part, I never talk to the child about time. We talk about other things -- though not about anything much -- and never about tomorrow. For me that is impossible. Tomorrow we could all be wiped out. You think back upon all the promises you did not manage to keep. Talk about time and you will always end up making promises. Then it is better to say nothing at all, no matter what.