Quotes about present

Yesterday is a cancelled check tomorrow is a promissory note today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely.

Strike the rock and the water will flow don’t wait to brag about why you alone can hit the rock for water to flow just go and do it because the world is thirsty! Your potentials are in put in you by God because he knows there is a need to be fulfilled awaken it and present it to us!

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift the only one that ultimately matters most.

To some education is just a bore to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

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

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

The future is purchased by the present.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

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.

Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models - they are essential to the advancement of our society.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

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

Accept the past embrace the present consider the future.

The next 15 years are more important than the previous 15. The past is done learn from it and move on.

I personally believe this: We have only today yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.

To envision the future you must forget the past and make the present a memory

Don’t give up on trying everyday those who gave up yesterday are living today regretting that they never tried again and again.

Never look back you may only find what you left or let you go.

After so many years, we kept our nearness, by paying with our distance.

By worrying about the future, We will convolute our present lives.

An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made out of my past, not the elimination of that mess.

Visionless people are prone to harm and trouble, because they always follow any path and end anyhow.

I prefer not to use my past to gain sympathy or people,I believe in present and try to stay in it for a better future.

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

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

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the wor

In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight, only in its recollection.

But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until — later of sooner — perhaps — no, not perhaps — quite certainly: it will come.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17)

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 are, spectres mix with our lives so that there is neither pure memory nor pure life. They clash and try to strangle each other, continually

The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrate, and to become heavy and very small like some of those heavenly bodies scientists tell us of.

You do not need to fabricate at all. Once you utterly let be, involvement in thoughts of past, present and future subside. By letting be, you are no longer involved in the thoughts of the three times. When utterly letting be, wakefulness is vividly present.

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

Information about time cannot be imparted in a straightforward way. Like furniture, it has to be tipped and tilted to get it through the door. If the past is a solid oak buffet whose legs must be unscrewed and whose drawers must be removed before, in an altered state, it can be upended into the entryway of our minds, then the future is a king-size waterbed that hardly stands a chance, especially if it needs to be brought up in an elevator.Those billions who persist in perceiving time as the purs

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly plant

And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.

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.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

You chose to live here now. You should try to live in the present.

Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past.

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.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

According to the Bible, every man has a past, present, and future

Always learn to praise God for the present

The present offers fresh opportunities

There is not only the present, but there is a future waiting for us as well

We can’t fear the future with a present mindset. We must ask ourselves questions we do not know the answers to, we should disrupt ourselves to grow.

There is no past and future for those who exist in the now. Live in the moment, today is the only reality.

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 th

And truths, these days, are spokenThe same way promises are made,With gritted teeth and crossed fingers.

He lived decades ago,she lives at the moment.A very saddening reality for her.

What is important is to understand the true boundaries of reality, not the probable boundaries of possible future events. Although boundary conditions operate on the future, they are probabilistic constraints, not absolutely determined fact. We assume that ten minutes hence, the room we are in will still exist. It is a boundary condition that will define the next ten minutes in our space/time coordinate. But we cannot know who will be in the room ten minutes hence; that is free to be determined.

Even if you time travel your past, it can't be changed, likewise you can't possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.

I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt.

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.