Quotes About Present

I can't stand comparisons to the past. It doesn't matter what we did in previous seasons.

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.

The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Conversely, when we continually bring awareness to the immediate moment of experience, this capacity will soon be found in dream.

The real work of relationships is not occasional, or even daily: it is minute-to-minute. In this triggered moment right now, which path am I going to take? Rather than being overridden by your history, you can stop, pause, and choose.

Or am I speaking to a triggered part of you, to your adversarial you and me consciousness? The triggered part of you sees things through the prism of the past. I believe there's no such thing as overreacting; it's just that what someone is reacting to may no longer be what's in front of them.

Don't let the past steal your present.

Yiipppeeee! It's a new day! A special day. It's today!

The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us.

Lost time is never found again." ~ Benjamin Franklin

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

The present was always paramount, in a way that thrust you forward: empty, but also free. Whatever stories you told over to yourself and others, you were in truth exposed and naked in the present, a prow cleaving new waters; your past was insubstantial behind, it fell away, it grew into desuetude, its forms grew obsolete. The problem was, you were always still alive, until the end. You had to do something.