The Present Quotes
The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more # romantic than the present day
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.
He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.
The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and has nothing to do with the present moment.
As you awaken, the present moment becomes your home. You still play in the world of time, but you're not identified with the story unfolding there.
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.
If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.
Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.
The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child.
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.
I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.
Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.
What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.
The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.
Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.
When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.
Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.
Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment
Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.
Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.
There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.
The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive
Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.
Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.