Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Crying over what's gone won't find the present.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.
If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.