#sent

No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present’? I forget. ↗

— Kaza Kingsley

#present #time #humor

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#extending #held #in the past #love #past

Sam LeClaire was a good-looking son of a bitch. ↗

— Rachel Gibson

#opening-sentence #humor

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. ↗

— John Green

#labyrinth #life #past #present #imagination

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#first #last #passed #present #present time

Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future in a different way. ↗

— Jessica Soffer

#future #past #present #writers #writing

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning! ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#dissent #inspiration #protest #success #inspirational

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#break #exciting #first #grow #more

I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#any #felt #give #hope #i

Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way required by the immediate situation in which you are. Such a way of living leaves you free, not ruled tyrannically by imposed regulations which may not at all suit the particular case. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#inspirational #present-moment #principle #inspirational