„The past has ended its time, the present is the moment, the future the becoming.“
— Prevale Italian DJ and producer 1983
Original: Il passato ha concluso il suo tempo, il presente è l'attimo, il futuro il divenire.
Eckhart Tolle198
German writer 1948Related quotes
„The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.“
— Vernon Howard American writer 1918 - 1992
The Power of Esoterics
„Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have only the moment. And, deprived of the past, the moment - the present - has little meaning, if any.“
— Philip K. Dick, book Now Wait for Last Year
Source: Now Wait for Last Year
„Power of Now: Don't regret over the past because it's over. Don’t worry about the future because it is not here yet. Smile at the present movement, because this is real. Your excellent future depends on your present right actions.“
— Thich Nhat Tu Vietnamese philosopher 1969
Inner Freedom: A Spiritual Journey for Prison Inmates (2008)
„Nothing ever does happen in the future and nothing ever has happened in the past; the only happening is in the present moment. And yet people everywhere are so wrapped up in the past and future that the present moment tends to be overlooked. Yet this present moment is the only moment of reality; everything else is imagination. Now is the only time we can live. We can't live in the past, although some attempt it, and we can't live in the future. We live now or not at all.“
— Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter Marquess of Exeter 1909 - 1988
On Eagle's Wings, 1977, p. 159
As of a Trumpet, On Eagle's Wings
„There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.“
— Eugene O'Neill, A Moon for the Misbegotten
Source: A Moon for the Misbegotten
„Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.“
— Eckhart Tolle German writer 1948
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
„Love has no power to look forward — the delicious consciousness of the present, a faint but delightful shadow of the past, form its eternity.“
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838
(18th August 1822) These from a prose sketch - Isadore
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
„The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.“
— Eckhart Tolle German writer 1948
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
„Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.“
— Samuel Johnson, book A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), Inch Kenneth
„The present moment
contains past and future.
The secret of transformation,
is in the way we handle this very moment.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926
Understanding Our Mind (2006) Parallax Press ISBN 978-81-7223-796-7
„In every moment the past is born and the present flows into the future, taking the moment that already passed.“
— Dejan Stojanovic, book The Creator
“Passage,” p. 45
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “The Dream Chamber”
„Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.“
— Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters
Variant: Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.
Source: Invisible Monsters
„The present enshrines the past—and in the past all history has been made by men.“
— Simone de Beauvoir, book The Second Sex
Introduction : Woman as Other http://books.google.com/books?id=kUW0AAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+present+enshrines+the+past+and+in+the+past+all+history+has+been+made+by+men%22&pg=PA122#v=onepage
The Second Sex (1949)
„Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.“
— François de La Rochefoucauld, book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
La philosophie triomphe aisément des maux passés et des maux à venir. Mais les maux présents triomphent d'elle.
Maxim 22. Compare: "This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey", Oliver Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man, Act i.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
„It would seem like the present. He has a broader present. But his present lies ahead, not back. Our present is related to the past. Only the past is certain, to us. To him, the future is certain.“
— Philip K. Dick American author 1928 - 1982
The Golden Man (1954)
Context: "He can look ahead. See what's coming. He can — prethink. Let's call it that. He can see into the future. Probably he doesn't perceive it as the future."
"No," Anita said thoughtfully. "It would seem like the present. He has a broader present. But his present lies ahead, not back. Our present is related to the past. Only the past is certain, to us. To him, the future is certain. And he probably doesn't remember the past, any more than any animal remembers what happened."
"As he develops," Baines said, "as his race evolves, it'll probably expand its ability to prethink. Instead of ten minutes, thirty minutes. Then an hour. A day. A year. Eventually they'll be able to keep ahead a whole lifetime. Each one of them will live in a solid, unchanging world. There'll be no variables, no uncertainty. No motion! They won't have anything to fear. Their world will be perfectly static, a solid block of matter."
"And when death comes," Anita said, "they'll accept it. There won't be any struggle; to them, it'll already have happened."
„No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.“
— Jamaica Kincaid Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer 1949
Source: The Autobiography of My Mother
„How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible…“
— William Gaddis, book The Recognitions
Source: The Recognitions
„The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926
Variant: Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
„The Macedonians are a newly emergent people in search of a past to help legitimize their precarious present as they attempt to establish their singular identity in a Slavic world dominated historically by Serbs and Bulgarians. One need understand only a single geopolitical fact: As one measures conflicting Serb and Bulgarian claims over the past nine centuries, they intersect in Macedonia. Macedonia is where the historical Serb thrust to the south and the historical thrust to the west meet. This is not to say that present Serb and Bulgarian ambitions, where the past has precedence over the present and future.“
— Eugene N. Borza American historian 1935
The Eye Expanded By Frances B. Titchener, Richard F. Moorton