Quotes of: Presenter Keyword

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

The Screwtape Letters

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

My Utmost for His Highest

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

My Life

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.

Men Explain Things to Me

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –

Nightmarish Sacrifice

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 Other Alexander

Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Looking for Alaska

At any given moment the choice to be happy is present- we just have to choose to be happy.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

So never be embarrassed by mistakes, rather, be thankful for them, because they always present an opportunity for personal growth.

Look into the stillness

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way

Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself.

Misguided Angel

Memories establish the past; Senses perceive the present; Imaginations shape the future.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.

Murder in the Bastille

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

The Shadow of the Wind

And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.

The Orchardist

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.

Orígenes

Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?

The Past Never Ends

Our work is not to become a better person, but to become present to the perfection we already are.

Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living