Present Quotes
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All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.
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When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
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The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in parts of the Islamic world). Most people are at ease with the idea that our present biosphere is the outcome of four billion years of Darwinian evolution.
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We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
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The past haunts the present in mores ways than we realize. It certainly scares the living daylights out of me.
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The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.
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In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
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For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
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For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.
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I choose to live in the present because when you suffer from chronic illness, you don't have a choice. It's day by day, one foot in front of the other. When there is a good day, you soak up that moment. Those 'good selfie' moments are captured because they're a gift.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.
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I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.
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Being traumatized is not just an issue of being stuck in the past; it is just as much a problem of not being fully alive in the present.
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Let the past be what it was, the present what it is, the future the best it can be.
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In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.
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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.
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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
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For present joys are more to flesh and bloodThan a dull prospect of a distant good.
