Quotes About Present

I believe in haecceity, Sax had said, in thisness, in here-and-nowness, in the particular individuality of every moment. That's why I want to know what is this? what is this? what is this?

Please Jeff? You're sounding scary." "I'm just saying! Besides, what's scarier than right now?

People only invoke history to ballast their arguments in the present." "Maybe

This moment itself is all we ever live in.

Of course I am old now, but there is no changing that, except by death. At least I have this day, and these days.

Only this moment, always. We never get to change the past. We never get to know the future. No reason to wish for one place rather than another; no reason to say I wish I were home, or I wish I were in an exotic new place that is not my home. They will all be the same as this place. Here the experience of existing comes clear. This world is our body. Now

We must say, I have no past. I am beginning here and now

When memory fails to contain us we must love the past more than ever, to hold it to us—or else the present becomes a meaningless blaze of color and sound, in which no two humans, great elongate beings, will be able to do more than touch at their very lips, their spatial selves—no one will ever truly understand another. To love the past is to become fully human.

But you doona plan to deprive Bowen and me of a fight? Garreth had answered, So as to no' piss off a vampire queen and the most powerful witch ever to live? Oh, aye. What are you planning? Steal the arrow from Lousha, sneak off, shoot the god. Then I'll come back with a present and an apology, promising she can shoot the next god.

The man's face grew unrecognizable, shapeless, and still Jackson beat him. I wasn't witnessing a fight, or a rescue. I was beholding punishment. A sentence... I realized he was seeing a maze of present and future, a web of occurrences visible only to him. As if he were fate itself. . . .

Nonetheless, onward is just another way of saying the time is now.

Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things will not recur, and people become bound in their current problems. That which afflicted the grandfathers of their grandfathers is a distant, dim thing, and not as important as present concerns, no matter how trivial.

Darius didn't have any trouble finding the Street Cats building. It was a cozy-looking square brick building with big front windows crowded with cat stuff. I made a mental note to pick up a little something for Nala from their gift shop. My cat was grumpy enough without her thinking that I'd been cheating on her (translation: I would smell like a zillion other cats) and hadn't even brought her a present.

Until then her view of time was the present moving forward and devouring the future; she either feared its swiftness (when she was awaiting something difficult) or rebelled at its slowness (when she was awaiting something fine).

Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow. - Emperor Nick Chopper (The Tin Woodsman) -The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 86 chapter 11

Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow.

Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow. For before your head has time to spoil you can have it canned, and in that way it may be preserved indefinitely.

Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow.

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.

I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.

If you change your relationship with time, you will change your life. The most important time of your life is right now.

It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

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.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.