Tagged: present
“Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story.” – Evinda Lepins
“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.” -Alice Walker
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” -Marcel Pagnol
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future, it is something you design for the present.” -Jim Rohn
“I know that most of life lies behind me, but what I live for is today, and for the tomorrows that remain.” -Tony Curtis
“Forever is composed of nows.” -Emily Dickinson
“That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them–that is the tragedy of life.” -Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
“It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
“Humans can’t live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it’s a veil of tears, man. I don’t know anything that’s going to benefit me now, except love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.” -Townes Van Zandt