Quotes About Present

If you observe a really happy man, you will find ... that he is happy in tiie course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.

Live in day-tight compartments.

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

One should count each day a separate life.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.

Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it.

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.

Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.

Fear of trouble, present and future, often blinds us to the numerous small blessings we enjoy, silencing our prayers of praise and thanksgiving.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's good only for wallowing in.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

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

If you are afraid for your future, you don't have a present.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present.

The worst time is always the present.

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

Forget the past and live the present hour.