1,208 Quotes About Present

The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.

Dicen que hay flores que sólo despuntan una vez cada cien años. ¿Y por qué no hay otras que florezcan cada mil o cada diez mil años? Tal vez hasta ahora no lo hayamos sabido por la sencilla razón de que esa vez-cada-mil-años toca precisamente hoy.

Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.

There are greater possibilities ahead than anything that has already passed you by.

They sat in silence, watching the river flow in the same direction it always had, a ribbon connecting the past with the present, and a reminder that time moved on regardless of whether you wanted it too.

You can't feed today's hunger with yesterday's meal

El pasado latiéndonos en algún rincón, moviéndonos los pies. El futuro limpio, bailando.

The present looks back at some great figure of an earlier century and wonders, Was he on our side? Was he a goodie? What a lack of self-confidence this implies: the present wants both to patronise the past by adjudicating on its political acceptability, and also to be flattered by it, to be patted on the back and told to keep up the good work.

The past haunts the present in mores ways than we realize. It certainly scares the living daylights out of me.