Quotes About Present

If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.

The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

Always learn to praise God for the present

Just live right now, and be yourself, it doesn't matter if it's not good enough for someone else.

If you're worrying about the past, you've got a good chance of screwing up the future.

I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

Forget about what you used to do. Don't make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, "Oh the good old days" - the good old days are right this second! This moment controls the next moment.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.