#resent

If I could be silenced, I would be. If I could be tamed, I would be. If I could be loved, I would be. If I could be hated, I would be. If I could resist the inevitable, I would not. ↗

— Sarah Pussell

#love

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#epistemology #humanity #past #present #time

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#present #thoreau #walden #men

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. ↗

— Mattie Stepanek

#becoming #celebrate #day #deed #every

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#basically #called #continuing #education #enrolled

In a cult intervention information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of. ↗

— Rick Ross

#aware #cult #group #information #intervention

I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves. ↗

— Rachel Roy

#appropriately #big #big proponent #demand #dressing

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#best #fragment #glimpse #hint #individual

The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised, is half-mystical in basis. The intoxication, at once so heady and so devout, is not the romantic melancholy engendered by broken towers and mouldered stones; it is the soaring of the imagination into the high empyrean where huge episodes are tangled with myths and dreams; it is the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs. ↗

— Rose Macaulay

#past-and-present #ruins #the-past #age

Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that is the key ↗

— Karen Hackel

#living-in-the-present #living-life-to-the-full #new-age #now #the-present