Quotes of: Present-tense Keyword

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

Agnes and the Hitman

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

Anna Karenina

Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.

Aquarium

Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.

The Idea Miners: The Lost Lake Dig

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

If You Find Me

I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?

Julius Caesar

Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.

Journey to the End of the Night

Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they've lived that out, you'll know.

Roomies

The simple act of being completely attentive & present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

The old agility was still present and the passion was undeniable, but it was the wobbling of the gut, the puffing of the cheeks and the profuse sweating that lent the performance its true magic.

Rounder's People

The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.

Shaping the dream

... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow of the past, not the ...

Siddhartha

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.

Sisterhood Everlasting

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...

Stone of Farewell

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

Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

There is a different world on the other side of your present attitude.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The gift of life is present at every moment — even moments that seem insignificant or unpleasant.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

You can't worry about the future so much that you miss out on the present.

Nice Girls Don't Live Forever

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

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose