I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

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

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same...

[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt....

I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That’s why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift… for those who are willing to receive it.

People exiled in the past and disowning the present may build the wealth but not the future.

He was always crazy about her. If he was a king then she was his crest– the emblem of his kingdom. Without her, his world is lost. He left his house or rather palace, now...

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.

Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.

I am the bow of love. I’m also the bow of hate. Same spelling, different pronunciations and meanings. Would you like me to gift wrap my greeting?

I got you a birthday present. The box is the exact same size as a coffin.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

If you are present, then you can see that you give yourself presents in each moment that you can unwrap and thoroughly enjoy – the amazing world around us that we can explore, each incredible...

A woman in a box—a great gift for the husband who has everything.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it?Or we yearn for yesterday,...

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I’ll forget that I stood before you...

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

The future depends on what you do today.

At present the three outbreaks were stamped out and no new cases found.

Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.

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

I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.

That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver’s stead. They were a small part of that person to keep.

i am here and now in all this Omnipresent , i am the universe.

DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

The present is the key to the past.

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are...

We’re so used to just glancing at the environment through the eyes of the past that we’re frequently not certain if we are in fact paying attention or if we merely think that we’re paying...

Be willing to give, but only when you aren’t expecting anything in return.

For your birthday I got you some batteries. They’re dead, just like you’ll soon be.

A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.

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

I would like to think she turns around and goes home and does one thing differently that day because of what she has imagined, and again the day after that, and the day after that.

..the past kept pricking at me and I knew that all the elements of those nineteen days in July were astir within me, like phlegm in an attack of bronchitis, waiting to come up. I...

I’m elated. The commission decided to stay with our present allocation for another two years to see how it works out.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with...

Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011

Lets stop worrying about future and lets start enjoying the present.

…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 …

The crowded city streets, the chaos of disorderly lives – nothing could keep her from wreaking love. She always wanted to let go, and I always wanted to own. She always had it coming, and...

In magic – and in life – there is only the present moment, the now. You can’t measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. ‘Time’ doesn’t pass. We human beings have...

Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously ‘present,’ an unstable...

Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

It’s a privilege to present ‘Late Night Live’. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net.

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if...

Past is over, please don’t open the door for it again. It will kidnap the present from under your nose

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.