1,208 Quotes About Present

I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.

[O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.

But this, all this, isn't the story I'm trying to tell. This is all past. This is the part of your life where it gets taken over by other people's stories and there's nothing you can do about it except hold on tight and hope you're still alive at the end to take up your own story again. So that's what we did. Me, Mel, and Meredith all moved on, and we're the stories we're living now.Aren't we?

Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

I used to think there was no time like the present. I used to think there was no time but the present. Now I know better—or different, anyway. In the end, the past will always be there. The past is all there is: the present never sticks around for long enough, and the future is anybody’s guess. In time, you always have to hand it to the past. It always gets you in the end.

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the 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.

Have compassion for your past. By showing love to the present. Your past was just the portal to now.

When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.