Present Quotes - Page 3

Your Presentation is your Capability.

Don’t waste your time dying over the past, spend it living in the present.

The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or sorrow or wonder than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.

We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy even our differences in peace.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

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

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.

I advise people not to research radiation unless they are prepared to take the risks to their own health and mental functioning that the various forms of radiation are known to present to the human.

One could only learn from the past and move on through the present to make a better future.

The present moment is significant not as the bridge between past and future but by reason of its contents which can fill our emptiness and become ours if we are capable of receiving them

What we are at this very moment is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment. And the step that you take at this moment, will determine your future. Past and future both require a functional mind to exist. Only the present prevails independent of mind – independent of life.

Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!

The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn't put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me

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

Take it easy. Live life- one day at a time. It is only when we add the regrets of 'yesterday' and worries of the 'future' to the 'present' that we end up complicating things...

The only thing that prevents us from being happy is thinking.

Forget the Past. Doubt the Future. Love the Present.

The future is now.The past is now.Your influence is always now.

Concentrate on the here and now. The future can take care of itself.

Link says if a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it’s jewelry.

Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

...my awakening life.I am awake in the present.The present is today.Today is a great gift.

Past shouldn't always be treasured, becausePresent and Future become trashed.

Learn from the past, log the lessons from the past, butleave the past!

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

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.

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.

If on any given day you don't cry from rejoicing in the beauty of the world, then you have not lived that day.

Writing is taking human experience and wrapping it up into a package of your own ideas and hoping someone will pull the bow smiling on top to see what's hiding inside.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure.

The something which had been a future was now a present and would become a past.

We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.

Human beings intuitively divide time into the past, the present, and the future. We perceive the past as immutable and fixed, the present as reflecting actuality, and the future as undefined and nebulous. As time passes, the moment that was once was part of the present becomes part of the past; and a moment of the heretofore previously unrealized future arrives and becomes the new present. The past is a record, the present is real, and the future is an imaginary thought.

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

Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.

Life is made of the past, present and the future. We're shaped by our past, and we're shaping our future with our present.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

Being present is being connected to All Things.

The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.

No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present’? I forget.

When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.

The brain is a pleasure seeking machine. Once you teach it, through meditation, that abiding calmly in the present moment feels better than our habitual state of clinging l, over time, the brain will want more and more mindfulness.

We are always going somewhereelse

I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.

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

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature.

I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory is never like that. It makes hills of feeling in collapsed hours, a scene of enclosure made all precious by its frame.

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

The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but it’s only your imaginations, that extend your momentary happiness, for some more time.

I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. YOu just use the future to escape the present.

Life becomes meaningful with a loving heart's gift Upon the ocean of gratitude soul's boat adrift Invisible expectancy tossed and turnedFrom the light of memories a blessed ray earned

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness