Quotes About Present

"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can cal today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today."

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

Live each day as if it's your last.

Let go of the past. Let go of the future. Let go of the present. Proceed to the opposite shore with a free mind, leaving behind all conditioned things.

Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny. It doesn't matter what you did or where you were. It matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there. Sing the song in your heart and never let anyone shut you up.

This is a wonderful day. I've never seen it before.

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."

Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

Most people, when they reach a certain age, let down and talk about what they used to do. Well, who gives a damn about what you used to do? It's what you're doing now.

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

Age is nothing; waking up is everything.

Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.

I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

We can sit and worry about what's going to happen to us two weeks from now. I'd rather focus on the amazing things happening right in front of us.