Present Quotes

The present like a note in music is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to co...

Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. To...

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.

The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's su...

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immed...

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find we have lost the future.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

Tis the old wind in the old anger,But then it threshed another wood.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Act-act in the living Present!

I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present...

This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the ex...

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important...

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us...

The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past and it is the future.

Today will die tomorrow.

Beautify your breath – beautify your life.

Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.

Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment.

Moment is a flower. Mindfulness is sipping the nectar of that flower.

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to just...

In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the pr...

Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular cata...

You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is...

Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediat...

Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with...

Through loyalty to the past our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if tod...

It is now and in this world that we must live.

[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waitin...

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And ...

Youth is the time of getting middle age of improving and old age of spending.

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our ...

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of...

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times it's the only time we've got.

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.

The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window and it ticks.

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop tho...

But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist...

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their histo...

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gi...

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what...

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

The past and present are only our means the future is always our end. Thus we never really live bu...

As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so.

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like af...

destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to e...

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--f...

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

Time is your cathedral. You know the present is only a pretty illusion in the minds of men. And I th...

The past is a bucket of ashes so live not in your yesterdays nor just for tomorrow but in the her...

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they re...

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to...

Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty o...

But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year ...

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at t...

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths...

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present. After all...

Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...

It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're...

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remai...

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

The present moment is significant not as the bridge between past and future but by reason of its c...

All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon i...

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page th...

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the prese...

What is our life: (Pause.) it’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s it...

The Future,” says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. “Coming soon, to a Present near you.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it pre...

We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it ...