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Quotes About Present

It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're gifted each day.
~ Craig Groeschel
Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
~ Cressida Cowell
Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.
~ CrimethInc.
Let the past inspire you, to always challenge the future. Then your mind will conquer the present moment.
~ Unknown
We are always getting to live, as Ralph Waldo Emerson used to say, but never living. Or as poor Frances learned in the children's story, it is always bread and jam tomorrow, never brad and jam today.
~ Unknown
High-performing people are good at staying almost exclusively focused on what they are responsible for and what they can do right here, right now.
~ Unknown
It's never been today before.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Å»yjesz tu, teraz. Hic et nunc. Masz jedno ?ycie, jeden punkt. Co zd??ysz zrobi?, to zostanie, Cho?by ktoÅ› inne mógÅ' mie? zdanie.
~ Czes?aw Mi?osz
The living moment is everything.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
~ D.H. Lawrence
where is here, when is now??
~ D.J. MacHale
The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It's just... it's perfect. You're perfectly present. You're perfectly in the moment. You're perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You're just surfing. You're surfing away with your friends or your family, and that's it. You're just there.
~ John John Florence
I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.
~ Seth Gordon
To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.
~ David Whyte
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
~ Audre Lorde
There's no destination. The journey is all that there is, and it can be very, very joyful.
~ Srikumar Rao
I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.
~ Harold Prince
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
~ Nick Lampson
I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.
~ Michael Aspel
Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was writing about or the post-9/11 era that I'm writing about.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
When you play for a club like Madrid, you always have to stay in the present, because everything is so intense: the sprints, the headers, the tackles, the training sessions, the away trips, the hotels. The victories and the defeats.
~ Roberto Carlos
I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.
~ Jonas Mekas
For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
~ Erich von Stroheim
Casey was telling Luna to live in the moment, to enjoy the easy gifts that life offered. But Luna couldn't help but feel a faint threat in the subtext.
~ Lisa Lutz