Quotes About Present

True ideas do not change or develop, but remain as they are in the timeless 'present.

In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory.

Hayden] white argues instead for histories that avoid narrative closure and that highlight the contingency of the past ... He points especially to chronicle - a form marked by a lack of closure - as a useful alternative to the narrative. In a chronicle, historians offer an interpretation of the past but simply end the account when they reach the present.

I never try to do any deep thinking while I'm driving; the thinking gets you nowhere and the driving might get you where you would rather not be;

Be happy NOW. Feel good NOW. That's the only thing you have to do. And if that's the only thing you get from reading this book, then you have received the greatest truth of The Secret.

Be happy now. Feel good now. That's the only thing you have to do.

about anything in the past. If you focus on past difficulties, you are bringing more difficult circumstances now.

Whether you like it or not, you're in the moment. There's only one moment, it's infinite, and you can't be anywhere else but in it.

I am receiving now. I am receiving all the good in my life now. I am receiving [fill in the blank] now." And feel it. Feel it as though you have received.

aunque mi papá no crea en la nostalgia ni en el rencor «porque el tiempo no existe», y el pasado está a punto de pasar, y el presente es el futuro: 3:00 p.m.

If people just took it a day at a time, they'd be a lot happier.

Nay, in my opinion, you ought to be ashamed to open your mouths ever hereafter against the present government of the Church, and for the new platform, until you can be contented to be so far from coveting the goods of the Church, as that you are both willing and ready to deliver out of your hand such spoils and preys thereof as you have already.

During my session this art of relaxation itself became the basis of an immense revelation, as it suddenly appeared to me that something in the spirit of this relaxation, something in the achievement of a perfect, trusting and loving openness of spirit, is the very essence and purpose of life. Our task in life consists precisely in a form of letting go of fear and expectations, an attempt to purely give oneself to the impact of the present.

Live for the present –' I heard my parents' old maxim in the back of my head '– and the future will look after itself.

muy importante vivir en el hoy.

One of the most dynamic and significant changes you can make in your life is to make the commitment to drop all negative references to your past, to begin living now.

Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?

wir [müssen] begreifen, dass es in unserem Leben letztlich auf das Sein ankommt und nicht darauf zu erhoffen, dass das Werden ein besseres Sein ist, als die Gegenwart.

How many people live in the moment? A few? How many people live for tomorrow at the sacrifice of today?" Dreyfus opened his fist to reveal it to be empty. "...When tomorrow is never a guarantee.

The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.

The past does not exist. The future does not exist. One should concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Happiness in life is the result of accepting everything just the way it is. Serenity is achieved when one no longer wishes for "something else.

To all of us the thought of heaven is dear - Why not be sure of it and make it here? No doubt there is a heaven yonder too, But 'tis so far away - and you are near. Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here; Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here; Men of hereafters talk, and future lives, O love, there is no other life - but here.

No, no, there was danger there. It was thinking of the past that drove him to the bottle. He was just going to have to accept the present.