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Quotes About Present

Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.
~ Thucydides
A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future.
~ Andy Stanley
Worrying about the future is a thing of the past. I don't think about it.
~ Pat Paulsen
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
~ Thomas Merton
Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.
~ Donatella Versace
To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.
~ Lin Yutang
The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.
~ Lewis Gordon
...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
~ Ai Weiwei
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.
~ William Browne
Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
~ Amber Valletta
Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
~ Tara Brach
America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.
~ Charles Handy
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.
~ William DeWitt Hyde
If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.
~ Byron Katie
The past is over, so it has no power now. The thoughts of this moment create my future.
~ Louise Hay
Let the past be what it was, the present what it is, the future the best it can be.
~ R.J. Ellory
Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
~ William Blake
The hard part about living in the present is it forces you to abandon hope for the future. Thanks for nothing, now.
~ Dana Gould
We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.
~ Thomas Traherne
This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.
~ Tim Ferriss
On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.
~ Thornton Wilder