Quotes About Present

Villari trataba de vivir el mero presente, sin recuerdos ni previsiones; los primeros le importaba menos que las últimas. Oscuramente creyó intuir que el pasado es la sustancia de que el tiempo está hecho; por ello es que este se vuelve pasado en seguida.

the present is indefinite...the future has no reality other than as a present memory.

Century follows century, yet events occur only in the present

Una de las escuelas de Tlön llega a negar el tiempo: razona que el presente es indefinido, que el futuro no tiene realidad sino como recuerdo presente

No less vain to my mind are hope and fear, for they always refer to future events, that is, to events which will not happen to us, who are the minute present.

Then I reflected that everything happens to a man precisely, precisely now. Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen; countless men in the air, on the face of the earth and the sea, and all that really is happening is happening to me.

El presente está solo. La memoria Erige el tiempo. Sucesión y engaño Es la rutina del reloj. El año No es menos vano que la vana historia. (The present is singular. It is memory that sets up time. Both succession and error come with the routine of the clock. A year is no less vanity than is history.)

One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time: it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than present hope, that the past has no reality other than as a present memory.

In its world, there are no names, nor past, nor future, only the sureness of the present moment.

todas las cosas le suceden a uno precisamente, precisamente ahora. Siglos de siglos y sólo en el presente ocurren los hechos;

One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than present memory.

No one should feel guilty about the past. Unless they're not doing anything about the present.

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now.

Mañana, ayer, ¿qué significan esas palabras? Solo existe el presente. En un momento dado, nieva. En otro, llueve. Luego hace sol, viento. Todo eso es ahora. No ha sido, no será. Es. Siempre. Todo a la vez. Ya que las cosas viven en mí y no en el tiempo. Y en mí, todo es presente – Ayer

Mañana, ayer, ¿qué significan esas palabras? Solo existe el presente. En un momento dado, nieva. En otro, llueve. Luego hace sol, viento. Todo eso es ahora. No ha sido, no será. Es. Siempre. Todo a la vez. Ya que las cosas viven en mí y no en el tiempo. Y en mí, todo es presente.

Live your life like it is the last day you live!

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,But an eternal now does always last.

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

One operates in the now.