Present Quotes

How freeing of a thought: instead of worrying about leaving a legacy, to leave no trace of one's existence. How liberating indeed!

~ Kamand Kojouri

You must be more alive than life.You must see darkness danceand hear silence sing.You must be more awake than lightfor we aren’t born sleepingand we shouldn’t live sleeping.Only then will death’s slumberbecome sweet.

~ Kamand Kojouri

If on any given day you don't cry from rejoicing in the beauty of the world, then you have not lived that day.

~ Kamand Kojouri

We exist only to exist.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Today is the day to cast your worries on God and breathe in new life. Your past does not define who you are today.

~ Gabriella Marigold Lindsay

What is life? Life is living in this moment, experiencing and experimenting but experience isn’t life. Life is reflecting and meditating but reflection isn’t life. Life is helping and guiding but philanthropy isn’t life. Life is eating and drinking but food isn’t life. Life is reading and dancing but art isn’t life. Life is kissing and pleasuring but sex isn’t life. Life is winning and losing but competition isn’t life. Life is loving and caring but love isn’t life. Life is birthing and nurturing but children aren’t life. Life is letting go and surrendering but death isn’t life. Life is all these things but all these things aren’t life. Life is always more.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Many scorned women delude themselves that the past was negative and to be forgotten, whereas the present is positive and to be celebrated. But what they also forget is, at one time they celebrated that past, as the positive present.

~ Robert Black

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

~ Kiran Desai

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why? She studied him, her eyes grave. Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

~ Stephen King

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow,The path of its departure still is free.Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;Nought may endure but Mutability!

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.

~ Ann Brashares

Life is limited by death to make us hurry, though we can't change the past, atleast we change for good and to never repeat the same mistakes again.

~ Jinnul Jr.

Let’s create positive change on this planet; With either: the hyper sophisticated tools we have, or the mobile device we are

~ Natasha Tsakos

This poem was meant to be unwritten. But I am writing it now and have thereby changed destiny.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Change the present then the change the future.

~ Matthew Donnelly

You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still alive and vivid in your mind – almost real – and the reality of your new circumstances has yet to fully sink in. You listen to the familiar melodies that had accompanied you on your journey, and allow the music to evoke landscapes and scenes in your mind. The songs caress your sub-consciousness and fill your being with an airy joy. You are both here and elsewhere. Or perhaps you are everywhere and nowhere.

~ Agnes Chew

Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No words were exchanged beyond the brief lines uttered to this nameless stranger, whose inclinations remained unclear. The car sped along empty roads and traversed dingy alleyways. Music blared from its speakers. I did not remember exhaling throughout the entire journey.

~ Agnes Chew

Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have done is silly compared to what you are doing to your mind: taking a sacred moment to be alive and desecrating it by being angry.

~ Kamand Kojouri

It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance.

~ Anthony Liccione

To enjoy the beauty of life, live profoundly in the present moment without the fear of the past or future.

~ Debasish Mridha

Beautify your breath – beautify your life.

~ Amit Ray

Work. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul’s true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I believe that anytime someone messes with the mind, they mess with the soul. Historically they go hand-in-hand, for a long time ago, the word mind was another word for soul. Contextually, people might not see the relationship between the mind and such events from the past and present, but there is a connection. They all involved tampering of the value of the mind.

~ Lauren Lola

What we did and who we were are just dregs compared to who we are now and how we act when the sword is coming down.

~ Rachel Aaron

We cannot keep on blaming the past leaders about the present circumstances. We need to be mindful that if we do nothing to improve the present circumstances, our children will also blame us in the future.

~ Gugu Mona

By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders scan the future so it can be free of doubts and fear. They do so by not living a double standard life in the present.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011

~ Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox

If the past is no longer presentis it fiction?

~ Natasha Tsakos

Everything is present in the world. However, your ‘emotional state’ does not allow it to come to you. ‘Emotional’ as in instability. While going to eat, one will worry, 'will I get food or not?' That indeed is instability. If you remain stable, then everything will come to you.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you do not believe in reincarnation then the word “prarabdh” (karma effect) should not be present in your vocabulary. Christian, Muslim, and other religion’s language is complete, but the belief is incomplete. Fortune, contrivance, lucky, unlucky – where did they get all that from? This is all a connection from the past life.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The rupee becomes cheap [of less value] and is that why man becomes expensive [valuable] and when the rupee becomes expensive, man becomes cheap. At present, man has become cheap; he will become expensive again.

~ Dada Bhagwan

After establishing anything as the absolute truth, its’ conclusion is reached. It doesn’t have to be established as the truth again. What is proven as the eternal established truth for past, present and future is known as the Principle [Siddhant].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

~ Criss Jami

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

~ Golda Meir

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

~ George Orwell

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

~ John Berger

There is no denying it, our past stinks and seeps into our present. Occasionally I get such a potent whiff of history that my mind spins and my stomach lurches.

~ Jinat Rehana Begum

Today is the beginning of new history.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future.

~ Józef Piłsudski