Present Quotes

Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.

What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.

Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

Now or never was the time.

The present is elastic to embrace infinity.

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.

What I am interested in is the present time

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

Nobody really lives in the present.

Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.

Life is only available in the present moment.

Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.

Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Accept the present moment without judgement.

My nearest and dearest have always been very careful. I've never had to send Christmas present back yet.

You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.

The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.

Letting yesterday affect today will only destroy the excitement of tomorrow.

Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models - they are essential to the advancement of our society.

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

Life is a fragile and awesome gift.

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.