Present Quotes

How long the path may be depends for any man on where he stands today and his speed of travel. These are his past and present choosing, but the beginning of the way is here and now, and karma and rebirth are the means of treading it.

~ Christmas Humphreys

Before you ask God for more blessings, try to first thank Him for all your past and present blessings in your life.

~ Hafiz

The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and Now, the eternal present, the timeless time of the Oneness.

~ Human Angels

Rules for Living by Olivia Joules14) Sometimes you just have to go with the flow.and then the new one from Elsie, added at the bottom:15) Don't regret anything. Remember there wasn't anything else that could have happened, given who you were and the state of the world at that moment. The only thing you can change is the present, so learn from the past.

~ Helen Fielding

Then you think, is this a better world, closer to theone before you knew of wars—earth wars? Before you found that canary in its cagelaying, barely heaving. And you took it outside and said, Go Free! Go free!But it died there, right in your hands…like all of life.Is the ash in trees, babies, flowers, and visions of Godbetter than the visions themselves? Then you think,none of this is tangible or concrete. So you have another cigaretteand think about the (not one) but many ghosts you keep tucked away,under sheets, under beds, in notes, within other ghosts.

~ Derek Keck

I say, we live on, though I am wrong, this is what I say.In the past, present, future, we live on as if in one time.You can never stop the past from happening,and it has happened , and will continue to happen. This is the truth, I think I know, along withthe two other things I do know.I exist.I want to kiss you. And also this: each day, as we go,we will always be as young as we can be.

~ Derek Keck

Is the ash in trees, babies, flowers, and visions of Godbetter than the visions themselves? Then you think,none of this is tangible or concrete. So you have another cigaretteand think about the (not one) but many ghosts you keep tucked away,under sheets, under beds, in notes, within other ghosts.

~ Derek Keck

History is about the past. Yet it exists only in the present – the moment of its creation as history provides us with a narrative constructed after the events with which it is concerned. The narrative must then relate to the moment of its creation as much as its historical subject. History presents an historian with the task of producing a dialogue between the past and the present. But as these temporal co-ordinates cannot be fixed, history becomes a continuous interaction between the historian and the past. As such, history can be seen as a process of evaluation whereby the past is always coloured by the intellectual fashions and philosophical concerns of the present. This shifting perspective on the past is matched by the fluid status of the past itself.

~ Dana Arnold

Why ruin the present by talking about the past?

~ Victor Robert Lee

The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.

~ Paul Russell

Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.

~ Margi Preus

There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine

~ Pushpa Rana

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

~ Sanhita Baruah

MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.

~ Hillary Depiano

There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to sounds and voices normally beyond the range of hearing. The past shades into present always and everywhere, but only rarely do we acknowledge the process; only rarely does some trigger force us to recognize ourselves as citizens of that frontier.

~ Mark Slouka

There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.

~ Lisa Gardner

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Only Jesus can take care of the past. But we can help Him with the present.

~ Calvin W. Allison

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

~ Sara Sheridan

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

~ Sara Sheridan

The simultaneity of near and far confused me; I thought it possible to find the past, the present and the future united in one place, giving it all that life can hold; but I had grave doubts that at any given moment life might reign both here and there, on this side and that side of the seas and mountains. And such doubts, demanding resolution, may have inspired earliest journeys: I went forth, not to learn what fear was but to test what the names held and feel their magic in the flesh, just as, at the open window, you feel the miraculous power of the sun you'd long seen reflected on distant hills and spread on dewy meadows.

~ Annemarie Schwarzenbach

My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past.

~ Sara Sheridan

The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?

~ Sara Sheridan

My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.

~ Emily Murdoch

Everyone’s past has ways of sneaking up on them. You just have to be in a place in the present that you’re strong enough to deal with when your past comes to visit.

~ K.k. Hendin

Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where Iwas once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past...

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

~ Amitav Ghosh

The present is the key to the past.

~ Archibald Geikie

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

~ A.b. Shepherd

You can never go back to a specific moment. That's why it's important to live in the present and not the past. Don't let foolish memories get in the way of the makings of new ones.

~ Emily Coussons

If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It’s not necessary for you to exacerbate your contrast with struggle in order to get it into a higher place. It is not necessary to suffer in order to give birth to desire. But when you have suffered and you have given birth to desire, so what? You’ve got a desire. Turn your attention to the desire. Think about where you’re going and never mind where you’ve been. Don’t spend any more time justifying any of that stuff.

~ Abraham Hicks

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

~ Seneca

Tis the old wind in the old anger,But then it threshed another wood.

~ A.e. Housman

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.

~ George R.r. Martin

Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present. After all, we know perfectly well that the past is as real as the present, and that New York and Singapore and Lhasa and Stepney Green are all as real as the place I happen to be in at the moment. Yet my senses do not agree. They assure me that this place, here and now, is far more real than any other place or any other time. Only in certain moments of great inner intensity do I know this to be a lie. Faculty X is a sense of reality, the reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it — fragmentary and uncertain though it is — that distinguishes man from all other animals

~ Colin Wilson

the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.

~ Jeanette Winterson

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

~ Flora Rheta Schreiber

...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...

~ John Geddes