The Present Quotes

A past will never die. It's always there and always present as long as your living breathing and able to remember.

It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present.

If we are meant to be gifts to one another, living in the past negates the present we need to be.

A person who can not deal with the past of others, can not deal with yours.

Before you ask God for more blessings, try to first thank Him for all your past and present blessings in your life.

Why ruin the present by talking about the past?

The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.

Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.

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

MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.

There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.

Only Jesus can take care of the past. But we can help Him with the present.

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past.

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?

My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.

Everyone’s past has ways of sneaking up on them. You just have to be in a place in the present that you’re strong enough to deal with when your past comes to visit.

Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where Iwas once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past...

Old places fire the internal weather of our pasts. The mild winds, aching calms, and hard storms of forgotten emotions return to us when we return to the spots where they happened.

The present is the key to the past.

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

You can never go back to a specific moment. That's why it's important to live in the present and not the past. Don't let foolish memories get in the way of the makings of new ones.

If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then.

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

the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.

...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...

He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become.

Every moment is brand new, but we often fill the new with fear of the future or pain of the past instead of simply enjoying the present.

That was desire messing with physics: putting its finger on the record and then slowing it down, making sure you heard every word spoken, and memorized it.

With the known, you simply repeat the process. With the unknown, you access the new doorways to life.

Learn from past experiences but accept them all as perfect while staying in the present. Let go of everything that doesn't serve you.

You don't ever heal your heart, you learn that your heart is the one that heals you, once you know to let it.

If you are busy focusing on the falling bricks, you will never realize that they are truly stepping stones you need to cross over to the next phase of your life.

There are some days we can claim and there are other days that claim us.

Give yourself permission to enjoy this present moment. Resist the urge to fill it with I need to's, I shoulds, I coulds. Trying to fill all your present moments is impeding the natural flow of life.

Take your life out of high gear and disengage the autopilot mode. Try living mindfully and avoid the pattern of living in a reactive manner.

First you must face your own reality in the present, here and now! If you fail to do that, if you do not obtain first-hand experience from it, there will be no deep, far-reaching changes in you.

Can we be clear about who we are, what we want? Can we be fully present in our truth, and communicate that? Can we understand each other?

When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life.

The only true experience is of the immediate present

To attain wisdom, experience every thing consistently. To retain wisdom, dispose every thing constantly.

I have no time in the world but the time in which I amand that lasts a moment and passes like a cloud.

Live in the present. It won't last too long.

The only reason why our minds are controlled is due to the fact that we don't make the conscious effort to control what goes in them.

Each moment means a new possibility. Mindfulness is not resisting things to happen but allowing life to unfold its wings.

Mirad had asked for peace for his birthday.Imagine, a boy of thirteen who asks for peace as a birthday present.When I heard that I cried.

Kids don’t have much accumulated and deep memories and that’s why they happily live in the present time!

Memories are what we cherish so lets make the present worth cherishing.

Only the wool of present will knit the sweater of memories that will keep you warm in the winter of your life.

I advise people not to research radiation unless they are prepared to take the risks to their own health and mental functioning that the various forms of radiation are known to present to the human.