The Present Quotes

“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“The present is relentless. It forces us over and over again to pay attention. It requires all of us. As well it should.”
― Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

“Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Each day is a gift
To embrace and welcome”
― Karen Hackel, The Whisper Of Your Soul

“Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that is the key”
― Karen Hackel, The Whisper Of Your Soul

“Happiness is not dependent on circumstances being exactly as we want them to be, or on ourselves being exactly as we’d like to be. Rather, happiness stems from loving ourselves and our lives exactly as they are, knowing that joy and pain, strength and weakness, glory and failure are all essential to the full human experience.”
― Kristin Neff

“Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“I'm trapped by the concept of the present, by the idea that time is moving forward and I'm witnessing it.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“It was characteristic of the vein of unhappy sluggishness and inertness in him that only when impressions had subsided into the remote past could he be thrilled by them. The reality of the present seemed always weighted with something hurting.”
― John Cowper Powys, Weymouth Sands

“Life happens one decision at a time. You have no idea where each will take you.”
― Mark Sakamoto, Forgiveness

“No man has ever felt perfectly happy in the present; if he had it would have intoxicated him.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays

“Yesterday is gone, its no more; Tomorrow will come, it's not yet; all you have is now. Give it your all”
― DJ Bwakali

“...I can't write it more literal...the literary world must evolve as well.
My next book after this, will probably be on a block chain.
The decade of inflation digital and electric relaxation, recreation and online socialization, business and commerce and non institutional education. Digital real estate...”
― Tim Storrs

“Either we develop new talents, or we develop new fears. The future is not fungible. And I say that in the literal and figurative sense.”
― Tim Storrs

“Song [translated by Sean Cotter]

The present is made only of memories.
What was, no one truly knows.
The dead constantly trade
names, numbers, one, two, three . . .
There is only what will be,
only happenings yet unhappened,
hanging from an unborn branch
half a phantom . . .
There is only my frozen body,
final, stony, and feeble.
My sadness hears how unborn dogs
bark at unborn people.
Only they will truly be.
We who live these moments,
we are a nighttime dream,
a svelte, scampering millipede.”
― Nichita Stănescu

“When they are awake, the spiritually asleep—the vast majority of people—are under the illusion of stepping into, or out of, the present moment.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“More than half of sexual pleasure comes from being in the present moment.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We have always been, and will forever be, stood up by the future.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The present moment is all that reality was, is, and will forever be made of.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“What happened a second ago is not any less a thought than what happened a thousand years ago.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Not even for a moment can you be in the present moment while regret or hope is present in you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“What is happening is both reality and reality in the making.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Being in a hurry gives us the illusion of doubling the length of every second.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The present moment is the entirety of reality.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The passage of time is as real as the movement of an animated object.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I am happy now. Why would I want to ruin that by thinking about a future in which it is possible I will not be?”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“The first one is paella-style takikiomi gohan rice ball. You chop up white meat fish, clams, shrimp and squid and fry them in olive oil with garlic and saffron. And in a different pan, you fry finely chopped tomatoes, onions and green pepper in olive oil.
You mix those two together and cook them with rice using a broth made from beef shank and chicken bones.
Then you make that into a rice ball...
... and wrap it in Parma ham."
"Oh my! It sure is something to make a paella-style takikomi gohan into a rice ball."
"But when it's wrapped in Parma ham, they match perfectly."
"It's completely Western, but it still tastes like a rice ball."
"This is a surprise. And the judges seem to like it too."
"Next is a rice ball coated in pork flakes. This is a pork flake you often see in Chinese cooking. You cook the lean pork meat in soy sauce seasoned with star anise until it becomes flaky.
The filling inside is Dongpo pork--- a Chinese dish made of pork belly that's been slowly braised."
"Ooh, the soft Dongpo pork came out as I bit into the rice coated in the sweet and salty pork flakes!"
"Ah, the flavor and texture are superb!"
"This combination is just wonderful! "
"You've made Dongpo pork into such a great rice ball, it's making me cry. It looks Chinese, but it's very much a Japanese rice ball."
"Now the judges are taking his side..."
"And the last is a deep-fried chicken rice ball. You deep fry chicken that has been marinated in soy sauce with ginger and garlic...
...and then use that as the filling of the rice ball...
... then coat it in red shiso seasonings."
"Ah, the rich taste of the deep-fried chicken is something the young people will like. And the red shiso seasoning creates a refreshing aftertaste.”
― Tetsu Kariya, The Joy of Rice

“[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, haven't we? Try not to live in the future.

[Brendan O'Hea] Or the past.

[JD} Well, you have to live a little in the past, because it's part of us, it's who we are. But don't -dwell- in the past. God, we should make the best of every single second we have.”
― Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent