Quotes About Present

The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now."

The Holy Spirit gives freedom from the past, joy for the moment, and faith for the future.

Most art will disappear. The past is edited so it always looks clearer to us. Today always looks a bit of a jumble. We'll put up with rubbish from now, but not with rubbish from the past.

No existe cualidad de la naturaleza humana que cause errores más fatales en nuestra conducta que la que nos lleva a preferir lo que es presente a lo distante y lo remoto y nos hace desear los objetos más por su situación que por su valor intrínseco.

There is no past, memory paints it,' Ã¢â'¬Â the pope recited. " Ã¢â'¬ËœThere is no future, for hope shapes it. There is only the present, but it is always escaping us.

Without expectations we live in the present, not the future, and we enjoy each moment as it happens without destroying that enjoyment with the disappointment of unfulfilled expectations.

We go through our lives thinking we are living in the present when in truth we are living in the past and the future.

Yesterday is gone, tomorrow doesn't exist – we need to accept Now.

If you visualise something happening in the future it will always be happening in the future and never in the now.

Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems.

The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future. You don't know me at all.

You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

You know, I read once that if you're sad, you're living in the past. If you're anxious, you're living in the future. But if you're at peace, you're living in the present.

Every man and woman should play the noblest games and be of another mind from what they are at present.

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

Leave the past alone, it cannot be reshaped. The future alone is ours. It starts fresh and clean from this very minute.

The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present.

Christ never was in a hurry. There was no rushing forward, no anticipating, no fretting over what might be. Each day's duties were done as each day brought them, and the rest was left with God.

Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability.

Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.

God has a thousand-year calendar with only one day marked on it. It is marked "TODAY".

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.

Each day is a day that God has given us, and each moment of that day is in His hands.

Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.