The Present Quotes

— I give the truths of to-morrow.
— I prefer the mistakes of to-day.

The only thing we really have is nowness, is now.

It is so obvious that to live in the present, we must first redeem the past, and have done with it; and it is only by suffering that we can redeem it, by strenuous, unremitting toil.

We were here. We are here. We will always be here.

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

Or was it the elaborate trick of an old lady convincing herself that she had a past? After all, once a time was over, it was done. You were always in the present. She may have been a girl once, but was not now. Her childhood was gone and nothing could fetch it back.