Quotes About Present

Tomorrow has no more existence than yesterday, but you can always control now. We live in a series of nows. Think about now.

It's always today, Jim, and it's just going to get better and better," I said.

Don't live in tomorrow's problems.

a leader's vision for the future has to be supported with facts about both the past and present." One

You have to spend more of today thinking more about tomorrow if your future is going to be an improvement over the present. And throughout the process of reflecting on your past, attending to the present, and prospecting for the future, you also need to keep in touch with what moves you, what you care about, where your passion is.

Whereas underprivileged strata of society religiously hope for a better future, the overprivileged, disavowing any idea of transcendence, "live for the present by exploiting their great past.

If we think in terms of our existence here, it means operating within the limits of life on earth. If we are thinking of time, it means disregarding the eternal and thinking only of the "now.

There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.

Because today after all, is all we knew.

I, Alex Cross do solemnly promise-to all those present at this birthday party- to do my best to balance my life at home with my work,life,and not to go over to the dark side ever again.

So let's not ruin this by thinking too much about tomorrow. Don't make a wonderful weekend into a bad Monday.

MEANWHILE, BACK IN REALITY…

We couldn't know the future or how long it would last. We could only choose to be happy and alive right now.

Meeting is the beginning of parting.' We remember the past, but live for the present, because even the present will be the past someday.

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One today is worth two tomorrows.

I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.

At the end of the day, as long as you kind of focus on what you can do and what you can achieve and what's in front of you, that's all you can be doing and all you should be doing. Anything else is probably unhealthy.

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

We have to be ready to confront the risks that the terrorists and others present to our city and those risks are unique in any nation's capital.

It is often said that having gone through any kind of suffering tends to makes you appreciate life more and live more in the present. I'm not sure how universal or long-lasting these effects really are.

I do like the idea that tomorrow I might find out that I'm going to be doing something that is completely unknowable today. I think it forces you to live in the moment in a very good way.

Everybody just wants to appreciate time as it's passing, to be in the moment. It's the hardest thing to do. You're either in the unknown future that you're working toward, or you're in the past that becomes a little abstract.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.