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Live In The Present Quotes (page 5)

It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did John Fowles
You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future. John Steinbeck
However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the plain of History and of our lives, in the eternal 'current situation.' He goes on talking, calmly or passionately. He goes on talking about something simple: his revolutionary practice, the practice of class struggle, about what makes it possible to act on history...not to demonstrate that revolutions are inevitable, but to make them in our unique present. Louis Althusser
Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward. Doug Coupland
Annie Dillard quote: "These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as..."
These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present. Annie Dillard
Denis Waitley quote: "Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy..."
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. Denis Waitley
I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present. Augusten Burroughs
Charles Dickens quote: "I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The..."
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. Charles Dickens
Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jerome Hines quote: "Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the..."
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present. Jerome Hines
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present. Madeleine L'Engle
Paulo Coelho quote: "Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm..."
Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present". Paulo Coelho
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world. Alan Watts
We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress. Allison Williams
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present. John Guare

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