The Present Quotes

It is difficult to live in the present ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Yesterday has gone. Tomorrow may never come. There is only the miracle of this moment. Savor it. It is a gift.

Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow.

Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday and worries over what might happen tomorrow we have no today in which to live.

The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future.

Few of us ever live in the present we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

When we have a world of only now with no shadows of yesterdays or clouds of tomorrow then saying what we can do will work.

I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is.

There is no present or future only the past happening over and over again now.

Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.

Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.

The present is the now the here through which all future plunges to the past.

I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now-unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

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

Do not manage as if you had ten thousand years before you. Look you death stands at your elbow make the most of your minute and be good for something while it is in your power.

And if not now when?

Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time.

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

The best preparation for a better life next year is a full complete harmonious joyous life this year.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow and when it comes it too is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow and so the cheat is prolonged even to the grave.

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

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

Today well lived will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.

We know nothing of tomorrow our business is to be good and happy today.

We are always beginning to live but are never living.

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

Just do your best today and tomorrow will come ... tomorrow's going to be a busy day a happy day.

Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. ... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely because only the future has intrigued them.

Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen.

Today's tears water tomorrow's gardens.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.

On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.

The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

Life passes us by if all we do is focus on the future. Being present, for the present, is really what is important.