Present Quotes - Page 2

I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

The present like a note in music is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

Walter Savage Landor

We can see well into the past we can guess shrewdly in to the future but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

Be satisfied and pleased with what thou art Act cheerfully and well thy allotted part Enjoy the present hour be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish the approaches of the last.

Martial

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

If you have one eye on yesterday and one eye on tomorrow you're going to be cockeyed today.

Anonymous

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

Anonymous

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

I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.

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

Who controls the past controls the future who controls the present controls the past.

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

Anonymous

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you and anything that is ever going to happen to you is just a thought.

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

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

Winston Churchill

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

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past not to worry about the future nor to anticipate troubles but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

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.

With the past I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.

Jean de La Bruyère

The past is a bucket of ashes so live not in your yesterdays nor just for tomorrow but in the here and now.

Youth is the time of getting middle age of improving and old age of spending.

Anne Bradstreet

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Marcus Aurelius

Reappraise the past reevaluate where we've been clarify where we are and predict or anticipate where we are headed.

Toni Cade Bambara

We can easily manage if we will only take each day the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

Take in the ideas of the day drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Tomorrow I will live the fool does say today itself's too late the wise lived yesterday.

Martial

The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.

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

Kay Lyons

Everyman's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with and the future is uncertain.

Marcus Aurelius

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well.

Epicurus

I try to learn from the past but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

The only living life is in the past and future-the present is an interlude- strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

Past and to come seems best things present worst.

William Shakespeare

The past cannot be regained although we can learn from it the future is not yet ours even though we must plan for it. ... Time is now. We have only today.

Charles Hummell

Look not mournfully into the past it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear but grateful take the good I find the best of now and here.

John Greenleaf Whittier

I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

William Allen White

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Plutarch

A life uncommanded now is uncom-manded a life unenjoyed now is unenjoyed a life not lived wisely now is not lived wisely.

The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window and it ticks.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times it's the only time we've got.

It is now and in this world that we must live.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life.... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Ugo Betti

This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

Let us live today.

J. C. F. von Schiller

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

Sherwood Anderson

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is cash in hand. Spend It!

Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Yesterday is but a dream tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day for it is life the very life of life.

Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.

Sarah Knowles Bolton

Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past and it is the future.

Alfred North Whitehead

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Simone de Beauvoir

This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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