Quotes About Present

Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.

Through Jesus, your past is explained, your present has a purpose, and your future is secure. What more could you really want in life?

You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.

In the full light of day, I don't want to think about the sunset.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Train where your fitness is NOW, not where you want to be.

I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.

I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time.

To move out of the patterns of our past and create the future we want we must pass through the gateway of the present

History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.

I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.

Maintaining security in the present undermined her chances of broadening her security-enhancing network of relationships in the long run.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns

History was always present for Churchill. He understood, perhaps, that the essence of history is the present, for the present is nothing other than what the past has made it, only those most essential elements of the past being retained in the present. That is what makes them essential. One's understanding of the past is therefore a constituent part of one's understanding of current events and a guide as to how to act in it.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Enjoy it. Because it's happening.

experience over there. That experience looks very pleasant. Let's go there." The aversive mind, on the other hand, says, "I hate the way it is right now. This is very, very unpleasant. Get me out of here!" The aversive mind pushes away the unpleasant.

Krishna would continue. He would teach Mom that grasping and aversion are twins: They are mirror images of each other. They both involve a rejection of how it is in this moment. The grasping mind says, "I long for that

times of such commotion as the present, while the passions of men are worked up to an uncommon pitch, there is great danger of fatal extremes. The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them…very naturally leads to a contempt and disregard for all authority.