Present Quotes

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

~ Ian Fleming

It was only when I rounded a bend and glimpsed the white peaks ahead that I doubled my abilities, only when I thought how far i had yet to go that i lost faith that I would get there

~ Cheryl Strayed

He was always crazy about her. If he was a king then she was his crest– the emblem of his kingdom. Without her, his world is lost. He left his house or rather palace, now spends his days on some filthy park-bench. He is a king turned to beggar. Nothing can cure him except his Angel, Emily.

~ Atri Cruizer

Don't stay in this now. You'll fall behind.

~ Brian Spellman

Live in the present. Tomorrow is a puzzle you can only solve with the answers you find today.

~ Sean Patrick Brennan

Everything Is In the World Is Interesting . If You See From Your Deep Level only From The Present

~ Sushil Singh

I have always lived in the present, accepted the misfortunes, made peace with the disappointments, delighted in its little blessings, found happiness in whatever the present moment has offered and sat in the shade of sadness to let the dark moments pass by.

~ Balroop Singh

What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn't happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No it does not.

~ Guy Finley

One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

~ Paulo Coelho

...Working for peace is never a one man battle. It means when one person who does not want to work for it is present among others, he/she becomes another work for the passionate people to work on upon and this makes the entire work more difficult!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I told her if she really cared about me, then she’d let me do whatever I wanted for my birthday, just like Mom did when I was twelve.”“What happened when you were twelve?”“Oh, Mom offered to take us all out for dinner—us girls, Dad was out of town—to celebrate, but I didn’t want to. This book I’d been waiting for had just come out, and the only thing I wanted to do was read it all night.”“My God,” I said, touching the top of her nose. “You’re adorable.”She swatted me away. “Anyway, Carly and Zoe really wanted to go out so that they could score a meal, but Mom just said, ‘It’s her birthday. Let her do whatever she wants.’”“Your mom is cool.

~ Richelle Mead

I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from.

~ Sara Sheridan

You have the here and now. You have a future. Deal with the past so you can stop looking back. It's just the pain.

~ Jessica Park

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Here, I stole it for you. Why don’t you tell me what it’s for.”“Aw, Sophronia, how thoughtful. You brought me a present!

~ Gail Carriger

Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.

~ David Joseph Cribbin

Live in the present. Don't think about things that aren't happening. Definitely don't think about eating cheeseburgers when you're not eating cheeseburgers. First of all, it's not happening. Second of all, it'll just make you hungry.

~ Amber Heart

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

~ Epicurus

Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.

~ Meg Wolitzer

Any day stands equal to the rest.

~ Heraclitus

Lets stop worrying about future and lets start enjoying the present.

~ Nadair Desmar

To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

~ Denis De Rougemont

Never look back, you may only find what you left or let you go.

~ Stefanos Livos

Being present is being connected to All Things.

~ S. Kelley Harrell

I got you a present.Did you?It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

~ J.d. Robb

When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose.

~ John Kuypers

If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in a future or a past which are not ours because they are always beyond our reach. The present is our right place, and we can lay hands on whatever it offers us.

~ Thomas Merton

No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present’? I forget.

~ Kaza Kingsley

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

~ Paulo Coelho

The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.

~ John Kuypers

When you do what's important now for you, you create a past that leaves you ready to handle the present. By default, the future is taking care of itself as you make decisions that are acceptable to you no matter what happens tomorrow.

~ John Kuypers

To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.

~ John Kuypers

When you are living in the present, you know what's important now for you and you act on that knowing.

~ John Kuypers

The brain is a pleasure seeking machine. Once you teach it, through meditation, that abiding calmly in the present moment feels better than our habitual state of clinging l, over time, the brain will want more and more mindfulness.

~ Dan Harris

The time is always right to do what is right.

~ Martin Luther King

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

~ Arthur Erickson

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

~ H. Jackson Brown

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

~ Billy Graham

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

~ Paul De Man