Quotes About Present

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Be normal, now. Right now. Because you are. Because you can be.

Be normal, right now. Because you are, because you can be.

Be normal now," she whispers. "Right now." "What?" "Because you are. Because you can be.

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 past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

The peace of the country was entering into her. It has no commerce with memory, and little with hope. Least of all is it concerned with the hopes of the next five minutes. It is the peace of the present, which passes understanding. Its murmur came "now," and "now" once more as they trod the gravel, and "now," as the moonlight fell upon their father's sword. They passed upstairs, kissed, and, and amidst the endless iterations fell asleep.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

A man is fit for neither business nor pleasure, who either cannot, or does not, command and direct his attention to the present object, and, in some degree, banish for that time all other objects from his thoughts.

In the soul there is only the eternal present.

Now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

It's always Now.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Always say "yes" to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say "yes" to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?

You have started, whether you recognize that fact or not. We foolish mortals sometimes live through years of not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is our life. The day comes when we die.

People so often look with longing into a daydream future, while ignoring the importance of the present. We are all in danger of thinking, "Some day I shall be fulfilled. Some day I shall have the courage to start another life which will develop my talent," without ever considering the very practical use of that talent today in a way which will enrich other people's lives, develop the talent, and express the fact of being a creative creature.

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.