Quotes About Present

The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

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

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

The past cannot be regained, although we can learn from it; the future is not yet ours even though we must plan for it. ... Time is now. We have only today.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thy allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Yesterday has gone. Tomorrow may never come. There is only the miracle of this moment. Savor it. It is a gift.

Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow.

I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.

Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

When we have a world of only now, with no shadows of yesterdays or clouds of tomorrow, then saying what we can do will work.

The present is the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

And if not now, when?

When shall we live if not now?