Quotes About Present

The present is the point of power.

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means.

You must have hope in a better future and have faith in this hope. But then you must forget your hope and focus on this moment now.

Live as though you will lose your power of love and attraction at any moment.

Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again.

Peace of mind is the power in the moment.

When you live for every second, tomorrow doesn't matter!

Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

If you don't have a good relationship with the now, you don't have a good relationship with life.

People should learn to live in the now. They spend all their time thinking about past glories and worrying about the future. Meanwhile all the moments of spontaneity and beauty they'll ever have in their lives are flitting from future into past without being noticed. That's why there are so many grumpy assholes in the world

He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

He urges himself to strengthen his virtues now, without any further delay. This is what he means when he commands himself to limit himself to the present. Worrying about the future and regretting the past badly interfere with focussing on being virtuous in the present. He writes that if he can cut free of distracting imprassions that cling to his mind and can free his mind from the future and the past, then he can make himself, as Empedocles says, "a sphere rejoicing in its perfect stillness.

The future is today.

Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly, at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment

eternity, where time does not exist and so the future and the past are both the present.

La mejor explicación para cualquier fenómeno —dijo Karras, pasando por alto la observación— es siempre la más sencilla que se presente y que incluya todos los hechos.

It is not the ought -ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is -ness!

There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing.

What is love? 'tis not hereafter;Present mirth hath present laughter.What's to come is still unsure:In delay there lies no plenty;Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,Youth's a stuff will not endure.

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.