1,208 Quotes About Present

I know now that the past tense is a cruel deception. Anything real is now and forever engraved on our bodies.

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway.

Sometimes to change a situation you are in requires you to take a giant leap. But, you won't be able to fly unless you are willing to transform.

WE ALMOST NEVER think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future.

Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again.

At the moment the moment is reality.

Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure.

Will my life be miraculously free from pain, despair, grief, heartbreak, hardship, loneliness, depression? No.But do I want to live?Yes. YES.A thousand times, yes.

It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn’t make and the work we didn’t do and the people we didn’t marry and the children we didn’t have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the kens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, as infinitum, until our time runs out.