My gift to you is not what’s in the box—it is the box. Happy Birthday!

Haven’t you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the past? I have. Never before in all my long life have...

Learn from the past, log the lessons from the past, butleave the past!

„Those who decide to live in the Present, must leave their past behind.

I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom...

… truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.

Yet it’s not for want of future that I’m here, he thought. It’s for want of a present.

Falar do passado é o mais fácil que há, está tudo escrito, é só repetir, papaguear, conferir pelos livros o que os alunos [escrevem] nos livros ou nas chamadas orais, ao passo que falar de...

My best day ever. Got up. Had breakfast. Came to school. Bored, as usual. Wishing I wasn’t there, like usual. Kids ignoring me, suits me fine. Sitting with the other retards—we’re so special. Wasting my...

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to...

…if a thing can be said to be, to exist, then such is the nature of these expansive times that this thing which is must suffer to be touched. Ours is a time of connection;...

Be Here Now

I was pondering the reason why we are all here in this life, and what did it all mean. It seemed to me that we had all been invited to one big party, but no-one’s...

The past,’ he thought, ‘is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.’ And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain;...

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we...

Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without the other. Since the body can only exist in the present, that’s where the mind should be too...

Knowledge is just a strong belief shared internationally that can be changed at any moment.

Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft...

You’re the one person whose opinion I care about. When I’m with you, the past dissappears, and I’m a better person.

Never permit your negative past to come in-between you and the possibilities and opportunities that lie in your present and future.

Forget seeing the future. Most people can’t see the present until it’s in the past. Like me, all my I love yous match up with all my ex’s I loved yous.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? … It lies upon the Present like a giant’s dead body.

People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content curators appropriately have a First Amendment right to present their content as they see fit.

I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen, … It’s a different kind of acting for me . . . It’s like silent-film acting...

If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that’s what caused me to be like this, it’s not my fault. Permit me to...

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

Look at this site – it is beautiful and deep. When we come here, we get ourselves lost in its beauty and vastness. Years of sorrow and pain lies in the depth of this lake....

Je suis vivant. Et pendant que je mange, je ne fais rien d’autre que manger. Quand je marcherai, je marcherai, c’est tout. Et s’il faut un jour me battre, n’importe quel jour en vaut un...

In a tired time, with the light outside drifting away for another day and the lights inside flickering as they come to life, I cup my hands together and prepare to give thanks … to...

We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us?

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out...

The past, has been erased; the present, forgiven; and the future, redeemed.

I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.

The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn’t put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be…

Normally in such cases even if the President wants someone to be present his staff informs the board to make that person available. And if the board was supposed to do this they have not...

Boxes of toilet paper make the best birthday presents. They really show I give a shit.

Strike the rock and the water will flow; don’t wait to brag about why you alone can hit the rock for water to flow; just go and do it because the world is thirsty! Your...

To me, there’s no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

You are people with a present and with a future. Don’t muff the ball. Be excellent.

If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me: ‘Why have you grown up such a dull dog, when I gave you such a good start?...

It never occurred to me before, but I always thought of time like it was a road, or an empty plane. I could see it and mark it and claim it as mine, but the...

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

That’s the funny thing about life. We’re rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not...