Quotes About Present

The present is history's child

The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.

This is my working definition of history: History is the past reconstructed interactively by the present through argued evidence in public discourse. There are times we can get only alternative perspectives on the same event. (There are always alternative perspectives, even when we do not hear them.) But history as argued public reconstruction is necessary to reconstruct our past in order to project our future.

For present joys are more to flesh and bloodThan a dull prospect of a distant good.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Here and now...breathe and relax...in battle and in life

When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?

This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.

Your life is not a dress rehearsal - this is it! It's show time!

Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.

I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?

The life is a wonderful thing. You have to appreciate it NOW... because you never know what is going to happen tomorrow.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

Don't wait until life has given you an expiration date to live.

Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.

Perhaps nothing was ever "meant to be." There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit "bendy.

Live life as if today is your last day living. :-)

This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.

Meditation is not an escape from life... but preparation for really being in life.