present Quotes

“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”

“An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.”

“You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.”

“To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.”

“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”

“It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.”

“Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.”

“The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.”

“The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.”

“The future is purchased by the present.”