Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?

Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous ‘gluttonism’ for books.

Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one’s ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present

Did men ever look in the mirror, I wondered, and find themselves wanting in deeply fundamental ways? When they opened a newspaper or watched a film, were they presented with nothing but exceptionally handsome young men, and did this make them feel intimidated, inferior, because they were not as young, not as handsome? Did they then read newspaper articles ridiculing those same handsome men if they gained weight or wore something unflattering?

I think it’s really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I’m just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

He linked the past with the present, and the eternity behind him throbbed through him in a mighty rhythm to which he swayed as the tides and seasons swayed.

He was older than the days he had seen and the breaths he had drawn. He linked the past with the present, and the eternity behind him throbbed through him in a mighty rhythm to which he swayed as the tides and seasons swayed.

The greater the number of people present, the less likely an individual is to help someone in need because it is easier to rationalize that someone else will do it.

For any dad who has two footballing sons, to have them in a semi-final and know that at least one will reach the final is the best present in the world.

If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future

Every opportunity that presents itself, my main objective is to conquer and be victorious.

Baseball is a timeless pursuit, where the past, present, and future all come together on the field

Today, there’s an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself

Today, there’s an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself

I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s brilliant ‘whiz kids’ tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it

God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present

Tis always more blessed to give than to receive; for example, wedding presents.

It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents.

Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. … And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and “being present” in full awareness.

My definition of God is: the ever-present essence of love.

Be real. That’s part of being present.

I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.

Release the past, enjoy the present and have faith in the future.

With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can’t start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

Your true home is in the here and the now

f you are not fully present, you will look around and it will be gone

Only in the present, can you savor the aroma, taste the sweetness, appreciate the delicacy

Only in the awareness of the present, can your hands feel the pleasant warmth of the cup

You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment

So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Of course, we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them; we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!

Presents don’t really mean much to me. I don’t want to sound mawkish, but – it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

There’s more skill in becoming something else, something great. Opportunities rarely present themselves. You have to search for challenges.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

What motivates me year in, year out, is the love for the sport and the legacy I want to leave for the present and next generation.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the present time will you grow more surely toward the stars.

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don’t know one or two rules.

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

Trap is new. It didn’t start yesterday, but when I was five, it didn’t exist—not even in the U.S. I’ve evolved with the music.

The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I’m sure we shall see the answers to the whys.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.

Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.

There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.

That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.

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

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door- or i’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

Decisions exist only in the present.

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

Don’t try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

What surprises me most is “Man” because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he doesn’t enjoy the present; The result being he doesn’t live in the present or the future; He lives as if he’s never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.

His help is timely: He is a very present help in time of trouble. His help is very wise: He knows how to give each man help meet and fit for him. His help is most effectual, though vain is the help of man. His help is more than help, for He bears all the burden and supplies all the need. The LORD is my helper, I will not fear what man can do unto me.

Yet the widespread planetary theories seemed likewise to present no small difficulty.

Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles.

Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

The general unreliability of all information presents a special problem in war: all action takes place, so to speak, in the twilight, which, like fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. Whatever is hidden from full view in this feeble light has to be guessed at by talent, or simply left to chance. So once again for the lack of objective knowledge, one has to trust to talent or to luck.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

The idea of an all-powerful divine Being is present everywhere—unconsciously if not consciously, because it is an archetype

We no longer live on what we have, but on promises; no longer in the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which we expect will at last bring the proper sunrise

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call ‘I’ behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I’d put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don’t have to do that, because catchers’ mitts are more like first baseman’s gloves.

All I have is my life.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.

Let’s forgive the past and who we were then. Let’s embrace the present and who we’re capable of becoming. Let’s surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.

If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation.

No sooner does an approaching hour become the present for us than it sheds all its charms.

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present.

Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin
The Thread of present Life away to win-
What? for ourselves, who know not if we shall
Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in!

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

What a difficult thing it is to ask someone’s advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

Misogyny is ever-present, and we have to be there to support one another. It’s about the sisterhood. There’s no competing in that

Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.

Life is the past, the present, and the perhaps.

The present is always difficult, but all would be different if we had faith in the future.

Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance in knowledge robs philosophy of some problems which formerly it had …and will belong to science.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present, but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence, we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Do not seek the because – in love, there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.” ~ Anais Nin”We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order

Despotism often presents itself as the restorer of order and by its very name it appeals to the memory of a long series of benefits

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

A word in season is most precious.

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical
equation stands forever.

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present

I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.

We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are listening to an expanded present.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is

If you focus on what you left behind, you will never see what lies ahead.