Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn’t change the past. The past was set and sealed.

Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in – figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone’s problems that you...

Today is a new canvas, paint it with all your favorite colors.

When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind – at least that part...

Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of...

It helped her [Caroline] learn that something you create yourself is the best kind of present.

I say, we live on, though I am wrong, this is what I say.In the past, present, future, we live on as if in one time.You can never stop the past from happening,and it has...

For now I sit on my final island of the present as my radius of memory shrinks; lost already are the islands of work, of old friendships…Other islands fade as I brood upon them.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

I happened to be staying with my dad and his present 19-year-old girlfriend. So that was really fascinating ? it was a mirror-image kind of experience.

I held her gaze as I held her in my arms. With all that holding I couldn’t hold on to the moment, and it slipped past me into the lonely past.

Be present in this class. And then, when it’s over, be present out there.

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to sounds and voices normally beyond the range of hearing. The past shades into present always and everywhere,...

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You’ve got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue...

I’m a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I...

The present and the future belong to believers and practitioners of excellence; not the “dinosaurs.

If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future?

Even if you time travel your past, it can’t be changed, likewise you can’t possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.

Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most.

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list.

it is always yesterday, tomorrow, and 3 years ago today. It is always your birthday. It is always the future, the present, and the past. It is always eternity that will last.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

The child is not a citizen of the future; he (sic) is a citizen from the very first moment of life and also the most important citizen because he represents and brings the ‘possible’…a bearer,...

I give myself permissionto enjoy the present moment.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually – greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

The success of the future does not lie solely on the safety of the past, but relies broadly on the security of the present.

While costly fantasies of this kind present a mouthwatering bonanza to software manufacturers and other corporate sponsors, what they bode for education is nothing short of disastrous, … Education is not reducible to the downloading...

He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become.

I forgot to get you a present . . . On purpose.

You have to present documentation of how you meet the core areas. It then goes through a committee, which evaluates progress of who did best in each overall area.

Present has always been in comparison with past.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it’s hurtling forward—toward what?

To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.

Qué idiotez sentir celos, cómo voy a exigir fidelidad a quien no tiene compromiso alguno conmigo, ni siquiera soñó en este encuentro, sería terrible enamorarme de ella, qué diablos, siempre me pasa lo mismo, en...

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.

We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. … That is no gap between the generations, that is a...

You can never be happy if you’re trapped in the past and fearful of the future. Living in the present is the only way to be happy.

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?” She studied him, her eyes grave. “Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

Our archives are treasure troves – a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past...

The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.

The mind would rather fret about the future or pine over the past — so the mind can cling to its own illusion of control. But the current moment? It cannot be controlled. And what...

We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.

Taken individually they are all excellent players. Collectively they are going to present a huge problem now, in the playoffs, whenever.

To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one’s being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent,...

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old,...

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.