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Quotes About Present

Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.
~ Unknown
Ne dis pas : je vis maintenant, je mourrai demain. Ne divise pas la réalité entre la vie et la mort. Dis : maintenant je vis et je meurs.
~ Unknown
Existe un antiguo mito que sostiene que contar historias puede curar enfermedades o salvar; sin historias, viviríamos un presente viejo. Dame la mano, Camila, ven conmigo y te contaré alguna.
~ Unknown
No es cuánto vivimos: supongo que en gran parte es cómo vivimos cada momento. Cada hora. Cada día".
~ Unknown
It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.
~ Marcia Wieder
Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
~ Unknown
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
~ Marcus Aurelius
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
~ Marcus Aurelius
As if you had died and your life had extended only to this present moment, use the surplus that is left to you to live from this time onward according to nature.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Every day as it comes should be welcomed and reduced forthwith into our own possession as if it were the finest day imaginable. What flies past has to be seized at.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose something he does not already possess.
~ Marcus Aurelius
You will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here.
~ Marcus J. Borg
Over the last week, if there's anything I've learned, it's that you're only who you choose to be. Every moment. The past is gone. Memories are no more solid than dreams. The only real thing, the only true thing, is the present. That's it." -- "So the things we've done don't count?" "Of course they do. But we can decide how much. ?And we can decide what we want the present to be like. We can live it however we want.
~ Marcus Sakey
Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
~ Unknown
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.
~ Unknown
It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.
~ Margaret Bonnano
that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove themselves to be such.
~ Margaret Cavendish
When he had first come to the village,it was the future that loomed huge.So much to plan.So much to learn. Then it was the present that had consumed him-each day with all its chores and never enough hours to do them.
~ Margaret Craven
This very moment is a seed from which tomorrow's flowers grow.
~ Unknown