I don’t regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life’s full.

A clone would make a great birthday gift, because it’s the only gift that keeps on giving. At least it’d better give me a birthday present every year. It owes its life to me.

He wore red, white, and blue, but he didn’t look patriotic—he looked like a sloppily wrapped birthday present. But it’s not his fault. I tried to wrap him as tight as I could without restricting...

‘Crash’ is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We’re distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal...

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Given the present situation, the visit is not timely.

Have you noticed,” she asked him, “how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips...

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

When a poet presents you with blank leaves you should consider it no small present

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What “grace” might have enlightened me? except that of passing time, or of a good cause,...

Ture stories can’t be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

It won’t be a present.

One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.

Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.

Live in the present. Don’t think about things that aren’t happening. Definitely don’t think about eating cheeseburgers when you’re not eating cheeseburgers. First of all, it’s not happening. Second of all, it’ll just make you...

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

Divorce the past to marry the present and be blessed with a lovely child of future.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it...

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

Then you think, is this a better world, closer to theone before you knew of wars—earth wars? Before you found that canary in its cagelaying, barely heaving. And you took it outside and said, Go...

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by...

I always to leave the past behind me, because the present has everything that I need to keep moving forward in the direction of my destiny.

Tomorrow’s fast becoming our Past.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

How we present ourselves at any given time is dependent on the situation. We constantly balance the tension of high aspirations with the pragmatism of realistic expectations. The key is to represent ourselves in such...

Today is a fantasy for tomorrow has gone and yesterday is here!

One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than as a present hope, that the past...

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn’t it time you turned the page?

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17)

A past will never die. It’s always there and always present as long as your living breathing and able to remember.

As long as you’re fully present in what you’re doing at the moment, you’re doing it.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.

The simultaneity of near and far confused me; I thought it possible to find the past, the present and the future united in one place, giving it all that life can hold; but I had...

We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present. That now is...

E ora vedi: questo “un giorno” è illusione, è soltanto un modo di dire! Il peccatore non è in cammino per diventare Buddha, non è coinvolto in un processo di sviluppo, sebbene il nostro pensiero...

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It’s a plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it’s white, and looking at it, instead...

I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member...

He says to me, Ranulph, he says… that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that the past is made of the present, and that the present is always here.

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We...

You can’t know what it is like for us now–you will always be one step behind.Be thankful for that.You can’t know what it was like for us then–you will always be one step ahead.Be thankful...

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present – the new chance.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose.