Present Quotes - Page 2

A gift can never be cheap or insignificant because of the heart and love it carries.

Sometimes to change a situation you are in requires you to take a giant leap. But, you won't be able to fly unless you are willing to transform.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

There is no past, present, or future; there is only meow, right meow, and what you do with your one shot at life.

Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smoke. Fast as a breath; inhale exhale.

I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.

We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.

There may be something going on in your life right now, that seems like a giant, so big that you think it's impossible to conquer. But, remember no matter how gigantic your problems may be, you have everything in you to overcome. You have the power to say to that mountain move, get out my way. Activate your faith, and watch it happen. The victory is yours!

A poet is born in the present, lives in the past and thinks in the future.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

I cannot place the luxury of thought towards tomorrow as I am consumed by living for today.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it?Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.

Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there.

Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again.

Had I not gone through my past struggles, I wouldn't be as strong as I am at present.

You know, if we’re speaking on a cosmic level, you’re never in a better place than you are in the current moment.

How freeing of a thought: instead of worrying about leaving a legacy, to leave no trace of one's existence. How liberating indeed!

Any day stands equal to the rest.

Leaders scan the future so it can be free of doubts and fear. They do so by not living a double standard life in the present.

The child is not a citizen of the future; he (sic) is a citizen from the very first moment of life and also the most important citizen because he represents and brings the 'possible'...a bearer, here and now of rights, of values, of culture...It is our hiostorical responsibility not only to affirm this but the create cultural, social, political and educational contexts which are able to receive children and dialogue with their potential for constructing human rights.

Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.

It never occurred to me before, but I always thought of time like it was a road, or an empty plane. I could see it and mark it and claim it as mine, but the reason I couldn't travel my own speed was because I was waiting on the present to catch up, I had to wait to get to my destination. But really, there is no road, or flat plane or anything... there's just this very dangerous edge... cliff that we're dangling off of, there isn't a future really, I mean sure we can plan and prepare, but tomorrow may not come.I'm not saying base your life on that- if tomorrow does come, what you do today will influence it! But anything can push you off that cliff. So start living.

People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.

Pain is inevitable but so is joy. Too many of us resort to abject fear or anger due to our sufferings or unknowns in life. Remain steadfast by approaching discovery and love so you can embrace the present moment. The past can serve as nothing more than a lesson and the future can serve as nothing more than a notion.

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. It's depressing if you spend too much time reliving old joys. You think you'll never have anything as good again.

Writing is taking human experience and wrapping it up into a package of your own ideas and hoping someone will pull the bow smiling on top to see what's hiding inside.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

The negative feelings of anger, bitterness, guilt, regret, resentment, and sadness represent a failure of a person to accept that the past is an event that holds no power over the present. The thought that the future will bring salvation is an illusion. We must exist in the present.

The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.

Don't let the blights from the past hold you back from the bliss of the future

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

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

The past informs our present and our future.

Your Presentation is you Capability

If you have one eye on yesterday and one eye on tomorrow you're going to be cockeyed today.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

By keeping the mind in the present, unless you deliberately want to contemplate the past or future, it’s possible to firmly face life without fear. Then, no thoughts of past failures or future problems will exist in the mind, and a truly positive mental state will result—fudoshin, the “immovable mind.

Every time we choose our past over our present, we kill our future.

We cannot keep on blaming the past leaders about the present circumstances. We need to be mindful that if we do nothing to improve the present circumstances, our children will also blame us in the future.

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

I also came to see that I should not worry about tomorrow, next week, next year, or next century. The more willing I was to look honestly at what I was thinking and saying and doing now, the more easily I would come into touch with the movement of God's Spirit in me, leading me to the future. God is a God of the present and reveals to those who are willing to listen carefully to the moment in which they live the steps they are to take toward the future. "Do not worry about tomorrow," Jesus says, "tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own" (Matthew 6:34).

I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory is never like that. It makes hills of feeling in collapsed hours, a scene of enclosure made all precious by its frame.

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

We should kill our pasts with each passing day. Blot them out, so that they will not hurt. Each present day could thus be endured more easily, it would not be measured against what no longer exists. As things our, spectres mix with our lives so that there is neither pure memory nor pure life. They clash and try to strangle each other, continually.

You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.

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

The present is the key to the past.

The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia.

Today is a beautiful day. Thank you!

The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?

WE ALMOST NEVER think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future.

If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

I wonder if I talk like a dead man. My daughter once came home from school very excited about some lecture -this was years ago, before I died, though just right before- and she said her English teacher had talked about what the dead sound like in Dante. This funny thing about Dante's dead, which is that they know the past, and even the future, but they don't know the present. About the present they have all these questions for Dante. And that somehow is what being alive is, to be suspended in the time. She seemed to feel that really meant something. That and also that the dead know themselves better than the living do.

Fuck the past. This was the present.

By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.