The Present Quotes
Live your life in the NOW. Right NOW, THIS minute, THIS second.
I've always let my imagination run free, but now I try to rein it in. Things never turn out the way I imagine, so I am letting them rest. Instead, I am holding just what is in my hand.
Every second vibrates within our Present moment, our now. In one split second of awareness, we can create a Life full of Light, Joy, and Love.
The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.
I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable
The past is a hotel. You can visit any time
True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.
Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.
Have compassion for your past. By showing love to the present. Your past was just the portal to now.
If you do not enjoy a moment, you lose it forever. If you enjoy it, it is yours forever.
We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us?
Memories tell me who I was, not who I’ll become. They don’t fix the present any more than they fix the past.
If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver.
Stop thinking of the past, and stop worrying about the future. Just win the day. Achieve the goals you set for every single day, and you’ll rebuild your life in a few short years.
The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be, ' there is only what is.
Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet… it’s so hard to let them go… to forget… to move ahead…
To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.
He says to me, Ranulph, he says... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that the past is made of the present, and that the present is always here.
If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave.
By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.
You gotta look backwards to go forwards.
If you're going to make the past your present, be prepared for a lifetime of dust ...
Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.
My present crush is crushing my past crush...Can I summarize "Crush Crushing & now Crushed
We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy even our differences in peace.
Whatever happened to you yesterday no longer matters. Be present. Today is going to be a great day.
Once again she had the disorientating feeling that her past was still happening, unfolding in a parallel stream right alongside her present.
When people complain me that, they suffer a lot my answer will be the same forget your past, live with present and don't wait for your future.
The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now.
When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.
Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present.
If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.
The challenge is to draw on the past but not be bound by it" p. 20
Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.