1,208 Quotes About Present

Je mehr gemeinsame Vergangenheit eine Beziehung hat, umso gegenwärtiger musst du sein, wenn du nicht gezwungen werden willst, immer wieder diese Vergangenheit zu leben.

William S. Burroughs said cut into the present and the future leaks out When I cut into the past what leaks out is you

id rather be with the person i already knew, than the person i barely know.

The other day I was shocked to come across, I think, the only remark of Bertrand Russell I have ever seen which seemed to me to betray an acute sense of class: ‘There is, on the whole, much less liberty in the world now than there was a hundred years ago.’ I have no measuring-rod for liberty, and do not know how to balance the lesser liberty of few against the greater liberty of many. But on any standard of measurement I can only regard the statement as fantastically untrue.

Alzheimer's is not about the past - the successes, the accolades, the accomplishments. They offer only context and are worthless on places like Pluto. Alzheimer's is about the present and the struggle, the scrappy brawl, the fight to live with a disease. It's being in the present, the relationships, the experiences, which is the core of life, the courage to live in the soul.

This is what storytelling gets you. You make things up that aren't real, and then get upset when they don't turn out as expected.

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

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.

Wie lange können sich zwei Menschen an eine Vergangenheit klammern, in der beide glücklich waren, um damit eine Gegenwart zu rechtfertigen, in der beide unglücklich sind?