Present Quotes

Divorce the past to marry the present and be blessed with a lovely child of future.

“I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.”

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery,
today is a gift of God
which is why we call it the present!

Perfectionism is a rejection of now.

“Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Try to keep your thoughts in the present, for the future we will never know and the past we may never understand.”

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.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything

To eschew joy in the blessings of the present while longing for that someday thing that will make us complete is the greatest folly and waste. For by measuring what we have and who we are by some imagined future, we rob the present, and thwart the very moments that would lead us into the destiny of our dreams.

I'm not stuck in the past or present. I'm stuck in the future. But how to get there? Now that is the question.

One of the reasons I think I’ve been able to accomplish as much as I have is because I prefer to live in the present while spending my spare moments thinking about the future.

Pain = regret of the past projected into potential negative futures. Otherwise it's just sensation. Being present = peace.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

You can't wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug.

We had the experience but missed the meaning.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present.If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race.Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.

Live each day as if it is your first, last, or only day.

Live each day as if it is your first, last, or only day.