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Quotes About Present

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
~ Tom Stoppard
I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
~ Karl Pilkington
The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.
~ Kate Chopin
Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.
~ Kate Morton
While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.
~ Kate Morton
We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.
~ Kathleen Norris
Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Live. And live well. Breathe. Breathe in and breathe deeply. Be present. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now.
~ Kyle Lake
Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.
~ Lee L Jampolsky
We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.
~ Lisa Mangum
I really don't look at my past and I really don't look too much to the future because I find that's sort of redundant. I really live right in the present. I live right in the now.
~ Lorna Luft
I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.
~ Malachy McCourt
By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.
~ Marianne Williamson
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.
~ Martha Beck
The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
What good is the present if you cannot change the future?
~ Unknown
For you and me today is all we have tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.
~ Louis L'Amour
You learn to build your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
~ Unknown
I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.
~ Action Bronson
Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
~ Norman Foster
When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.
~ Eckhart Tolle