Quotes About Present

We must know how to look into images to see that of which they are survivors. So that history, liberated from the pure past (that absolute, that abstraction), might help us to open the present of time.

There's no time like the present, No present like time. And life can be over in the space of a rhyme. There's no gift like friendship And no love like mine. Give me your love to treasure through time.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.

Dipping into the pitcher of the past, his father often said, can only sour the cup of the present.

These Jesus-rejecting Jews "are beloved" of God, he said. Not "were beloved" but "are beloved." Not past but present tense. Even though they chose not to believe the gospel, they are still beloved of God. God still loves them. And not in the way that God loves all people, but with a special kind of love.

When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.

We cannot know the future, nor can we change it,...It is best to be realistic about such things. But we have the time we have been given. So let us treasure it while we can.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it.

If we only knew the real value of a day.

Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.

While we live, let us live.

The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

Seize the hour.

Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved.

It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.

Each day provides its own gifts.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.