Quotes About Present

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now.

Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.

Who doesn't respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

Live each day as if it were your last, and you'll develop a keen respect for opportunity.

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

Don't borrow trouble. You never know what's going to happen. So if you worry too much about what's coming, you're wasting precious time. You could walk out your door and get hit by a bus in five minutes, so take each moment as a blessing and don't waste your life fretting.

When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our own home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possibility is that the past has become homeless, and we are offering it a place to inhabit in the present.

Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming yesterday.

Yet in retrospect, with the present to vindicate the past, everyone can claim the illusory status of being a seer.

contemporaries,

There is no point in waiting, as every moment is the right moment.

When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our old home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possibility is that the past has become homeless, and we are offering it a place to inhabit in the present.

Every tomorrow is determined by every today.