Quotes About Present

Live, for this is the time of your life.

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

If it be now, 'tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, That all with one consent praise new-born gauds, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. The present eye praises the present object.

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.

For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

Say a day without the ever.

What matters it what went before or after, Now with myself I will begin and end.

My lord, wise men ne'er wail their present woes, But presently prevent the ways to wail.174

Perhaps, he thought, if I only think of this second, this moment, the train won't come at all. Think of the water, think of now.

He who lives not in time, but in the present, is happy. —LUDWIG VON WITTGENSTEIN

3. Reframe Your Picture. Do you feel like life is in some way against you? How can you make your own happiness today? If life is challenging, can you nonetheless choose to say yes to it, just the way it is? 4. Stay in the Zone. Are you carrying any resentments about the past or anxieties about the future? What will it take to let go and accept life as it is today? What is one small step you can take to stay in the zone, where you are at your best?

If there is a single lesson I have learned, it is this: in life, we are destined to lose many things. That is the nature of life. Never mind. Just don't lose the present. Nothing is worth it. There is nothing more important than "this," the fullness of life right now.

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.

If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future.

Of this I am quite sure. If we open up a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

The past is over, gone. What is to come doesn't exist yet. That's tomorrow! It's only now that can ever be, at any moment. And at this moment, now, we are alive--and together. We can't ask more. There isn't any more to ask.

Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.

If the present," I said a few weeks later, "tries to sit in judgment on the past it will lose the future.

All are invited to the headquarters. Babel, tempered by skilful lobbying, is all that has resulted up to the present. But we must persevere.

Why do we treat the fleeting day with so much needless fear and sorrow? It's in its nature not to stay: Today is always gone tomorrow.

If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.

A goodly number of high nobility was present: the Duchess Kickass, the Countess Pisshappy, also the Princess Smellshit with her two daughters, who are married to the two Princes of Mustbelly von Pigtail.