Present Quotes

We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize those identities, in order to know who you are today.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.

~ John Kuypers

The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220

~ John Kuypers

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

~ Gautama Buddha

That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is supposed to be...'Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

~ Robin Hobb

Yesterday, she shed tears, keeping her head on my shoulders. And I think she's not going to be fine because I know she won't. Because a couple of years back, I wasn't.And when you know that you've fallen hard on a cold ground and are still lying there, what do you tell others who are taking the fall?You close your eyes. You accept to lie there a little longer. But I lie on my bed now, and it's a little too warm today.

~ Sanhita Baruah

We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.-Soothsayer

~ Kungfupandamakers

The crowded city streets, the chaos of disorderly lives – nothing could keep her from wreaking love. She always wanted to let go, and I always wanted to own. She always had it coming, and I never had a clue. She could light a moment with a smile, and I would stay lost anticipating the next one. She knew the present. I desired the future. Every. Single. Time.

~ Prashant Chopra

It only takes one thought in one moment to alter the course of your life.

~ Mark Donnelly

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are

~ Ruth Ozeki

The future depends on what you do today.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

~ Albert Camus

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

~ Nikola Tesla

You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirted or avoided for years, they come cropping back up and stare you full in the face, and one aspect of depression is a deep knowledge that the comforting doctors who assure you that your judgment is bad are wrong. You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it. When you are depressed, the past and future are absorbed entirely by the present moment, as in the world of a three-year-old. You cannot remember a time when you felt better, at least not clearly; and you certainly cannot imagine a future time when you will feel better.

~ Andrew Solomon

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

~ Nicholas Sparks

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?

~ Laini Taylor

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

~ C.s. Lewis

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

~ Albert Einstein

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

~ Robert Walser

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

~ Amy Harmon

To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.

~ Toba Beta

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.

~ Robyn Schneider

At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.

~ Haruki Murakami

All we have is now, this moment. If you live in the future, you’ll miss things, right here, right now, and you’ll regret it later.

~ Jessica Therrien

You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there. This is why you have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you because the present may be all you've got. And if there's more ahead then the present is where you can really shape your future.

~ Amanda Howells

Be careful not to look so far ahead, that you miss what’s in front of you

~ Jeremy Aldana

People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.

~ Anthony Liccione

Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.

~ André Breton

Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

~ Winston S. Churchill

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

~ Voltaire

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

~ Peter Benchley

The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.

~ Edward Gorey

If I could somehow know the future, then now should not be like this time.

~ Toba Beta

Yesterday is but to-day’s memory and to-morrow is to-day’s dream.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we’re forced to undergo the event twice—once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it.

~ H.e. Davey