The Present Quotes

My last defense / Is the present tense.

The hard part about living in the present is it forces you to abandon hope for the future. Thanks for nothing, now.

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

The most effective way to transform into higher consciousness is to pay attention in the present moment.

Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.

The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe. To resist it is to resist the universe. Let go and flow.

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.

What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.

Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’

You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day.

If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.

Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.

Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home—because you are home.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.

A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

The present moment is the pivotal point of power.