Present Quotes - Page 4

The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.

Contrary to popular belief: Knowing where you are from will not really tell you where you are going. It will merely tell you why you are where you are.

As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues in society today.

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.

I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other.

This is what storytelling gets you. You make things up that aren't real, and then get upset when they don't turn out as expected.

It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

Today is a fantasy for tomorrow has gone and yesterday is here!

16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment.

That still did not invalidate their purity in his eyes, so long as they continued to live the way they lived: sitting on the floor, eating with their fingers, cooking and sleeping first in one room, then in another, or in the vast patio with its fountains, or on the roof, leading the existence of nomads inside the beautiful shell which was the house. If he had felt that they were capable of discarding their utter preoccupation with the present, in order to consider the time not yet arrived, he would straightway have lost interest in them and condemned them as corrupt.

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

The past is already documented and the present is taking shape with every moment, but the future is always in-view.

It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're gifted each day.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

Taoism as the "art of being in the world," for it deals with the present—ourselves. It is in us that God meets with Nature, and yesterday parts from to-morrow. The Present is the moving Infinity, the legitimate sphere of the Relative. Relativity seeks Adjustment; Adjustment is Art. The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.

The secret of being happy is not longing for it!

How long the path may be depends for any man on where he stands today and his speed of travel. These are his past and present choosing, but the beginning of the way is here and now, and karma and rebirth are the means of treading it.

Keep your maximum focus on the present and a little planning ahead because without the present there is no future

Tis the old wind in the old anger,But then it threshed another wood.

This is a day of celebration!Today, we are divorcing the pastand marrying the present.Dance,and you will find Godin every room.Today, we are divorcing resentmentand marrying forgiveness.Sing,and God will find you in every tune.Today, we are divorcing indifferenceand marrying love.Drink, and play that tambourine against your thighs.We have so much celebrating to do!

To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.

If a man decides that it is better for him to resist the demands of a present feeble love, in the name of another, of a future manifestation, he deceives either himself or other people, and loves no one but himself. Future love does not exist. Love is a present activity only. The man who does not manifest love in the present has not love.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.