Present Quotes
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Whoever thought the future would feel so much like the present?
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What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.
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I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.
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Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.
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God giveth and God taketh away. Just be sure you’re present when he giveth – and somewhere else when he taketh it all back.
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The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.
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It's funny how the present can change the past.
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Sometimes a river runs on the surface, and sometimes it runs underground, but always it is present. Even if you do not see it, you can feel it.
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What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
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By losing present time, we lose all time.
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It drew us, because life is made of bits of the present that stay in the mind. The world itself, really, is made of that.
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I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
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There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
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Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
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Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.
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Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
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The Creation Museum uses fossils to present evidence that there was a global catastrophe, Noah's Flood, that killed and preserved the remains of creatures all over the earth.
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I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.
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The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.
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Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
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The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly
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There is only the present. A painting is an instant of time that has escaped oblivion.
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That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.
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Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
