Cities Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the…

— Bertrand Russell

I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between…

— Jonathan Hull

And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because…

— Anonymous

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather…

— Alan Watts

It's an insane way to live if, most people treat the present moments as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome.…

— Pacifiersucker

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

— Anonymous

When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to…

— Jack Kornfield

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

— Paul Scott

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself,…

— Eckhart Tolle

The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to…

— Patricia Hampl

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at…

— Samuel Johnson