1,208 Quotes About Present

Concentrate on the here and now. The future can take care of itself.

Your Presentation is you Capability

To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

Memory is the enemy of wonder

D'altra parte c'era una bella differenza tra le due culture: le donne thailandesi capivano d'istinto lo ieri l'oggi e il domani. Chiamiamola saggezza. Ed erano costanti, pazienti, fedeli. Le donne italiane conoscevano solo l'oggi e avevano la tendenza a crollare se andava male anche solo per un giorno.

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

We meet in a place where time stands still. You recall where you were when the call came in. The vivid colors of the day. The season. The way the sun was streaming in or rain falling on the glass. That’s how you know it was your destiny. You can remember all the tiny details of your meeting. And you thought it wouldn’t matter.

Don't stay in this now. You'll fall behind.

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.