My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.
Today is older than tomorrow,that is the power of the present.
Further, any way of life based on the importation of resources is also functionally based on violence, because if your way of life requires the importation of resources, trade will never be sufficiently reliable: if people in the next watershed over ...
The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through the mead-hall where you sit at supper in winter, with your Ealdormen and thanes, while the fire bla...
Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of bereavement? What do we do with the memory - or in the memory - of the beloved? Some commemorate love with statuary, but behavior, too, is a memorial...
My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again – my Life seems to stop there – I see no further. You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was disso...
Holmes laughed. "Watson insists that I am the dramatist in real life," said he. "Some touch of the artist wells up within me, and calls insistently for a well-staged performance. Surely our profession, Mr. Mac, would be a drab and sordid one if we di...
Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling of reverence towards nature. It is probably inevitable when science and machinery, capitalism and materialism go h...
Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing on where you...
Fuck the past. This was the present.
Past tears are present strength.
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.
In pure innocent love, there is no longer present contradictions.
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.
