The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for. — Dan Millman
Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real. — Wei Wu Wei
Not the past, not the future, life is now. — Rickson Gracie
The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future. — Ray Kurzweil
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. — Gottfried Leibniz
This is Now. Now is,
all there is. Don't wait for Then;
strike the spark, light the fire. — Rumi
These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now. — Van Morrison
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. — Osho
The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands. — Bruce Lee
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained. — Buddha
The future depends on what we do in the present. — Mahatma Gandhi
The right time is always right now. — Casey Neistat
Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today. — Pierre de Ronsard
Only the present moment contains life. — Nhat Hanh
The future is purchased by the present. — Samuel Johnson
The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present. — Swami Vivekananda
He who lives in the present lives in eternity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Life is a verb, not a noun. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Present Tense Image Quotes
One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.
Past Present Tense Quotes
I don't view myself from the past present or future tense i like to think of the world from my own personal point of view at whatever time i feel that is relayed to me in conjunction with my well being to progressively grow successfully finacially as well as mentally. — Riff Raff
The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time consists of only two tenses, the past and the future. The present is not part of time, the present is part of eternity. — Osho
The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense. — Katt Williams
Don't let the past steal your present. Your past has not defined, deterred or defeated you. It has only strengthened who you are today.
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now. — Alex Rodriguez
In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense. — Kevin Systrom
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. — William DeWitt Hyde
Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy. — Tim Winton
There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense. — Zoe Leonard
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. — Saint Augustine
Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world. — Barack Obama
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. — Maya Angelou
Be where you are, otherwise you will miss your life.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers
God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He’s told you. — Charles Stanley
It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family. — Virginia Satir
When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. It has nothing new to say.
Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes. — Billy Graham
If you are going to do TPS you must do it all the way. You also need to change the way you think. You need to change how you look at things. — Taiichi Ohno
You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it. — Nicky Gumbel
How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing. — David Attenborough
Should Quotes
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. — Albert Schweitzer
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. — Jean Piaget
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. — Josef Stalin
... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself. — Anandi Gopal Joshi
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. — Haile Selassie
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. — George Bernard Shaw
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections. — Julius Nyerere
Present Continuous Quotes
Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it. — Patanjali
So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future. — Kim Dae-jung
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. — Nhat Hanh
Enjoy life now. This is not a rehearsal.
Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra. — Dalai Lama
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors. — David R. Brower
Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection. — Annie Dillard
The future depends on what we do in the present.
Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him. — C. S. Lewis
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires. — Robert Collier
[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day. — Charles Kimball
...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Present Time Quotes
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace. — Adi Shankara
The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear. — Milan Kundera
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson
From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future. — Muhammad Iqbal
Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable. — Thomas Troward
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; There is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives. — Solanus Casey
In life, when presented with any situation, breathe, take your time, focus and then decide what to do. — Rickson Gracie
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one. — George Harrison
Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return. — Subramanya Bharathi
Present Future Quotes
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. — Bil Keane
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. French translation — Marcel Pagnol
Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. — Ashleigh Brilliant
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein
Best there is... past, present and future! Ohhhhh yeahhhh! — Randy Savage
Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future. — Marvin Davis
Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence. — Pope John Paul II
Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand. — Ian Curtis
Present Life Quotes
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. — Henry David Thoreau
I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. — Abraham Maslow
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it. — Thomas S. Monson
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. — Eckhart Tolle
The Christian should never worry about tomorrow or give sparingly because of a possible future need. Only the present moment is ours to serve the Lord, and tomorrow may never come...Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service. — George Muller
To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Intolerance of your present creates your future. — Mike Murdock
When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present the Lord. — Nate Saint
Present Moment Quotes
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. — Mother Teresa
What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment. — Nick Saban
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. — Thomas Merton
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment. — S. N. Goenka
God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for tomorrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment. — Mary Baker Eddy
For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well. — Matthieu Ricard
Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present. — Deepak Chopra
Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It’s really all memory ... except for each passing moment. — Eric Kandel
Present Day Quotes
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously. — Julio Cortazar
There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again. — Marcel Proust
Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible. — Maya Angelou
We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope. — William Wordsworth
From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time. — George J. Mitchell
Each day you're presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses, or you can let it out. So the best way to begin unlocking inner greatness is to make a conscious choice to live out the rest of today, with the best you. — Lewis Howes
Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow — Rasheed Ogunlaru
What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all. God is creating this whole universe full and entire in this present moment. — Meister Eckhart
Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify! — Henry David Thoreau
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. — Eleanor Roosevelt
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past. — Madame Chiang KaiShek
Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the
past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I
just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap. — Townes Van Zandt
One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present. — S. N. Goenka
Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present. — Gregg Braden
Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. — Dale Carnegie
Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives... but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can 'color' (change) how we see our present and future. — Bill Crawford
The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present. — Jack Kornfield
Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be coopted by the managers of this age — Walter Brueggemann
To be honest, we live in an exciting time where form is concerned. My sincerest hope is that more people will notice this and agree to play and invent - the only way to not succumb to the complacency and market-driven schlock of the present tense is to continually interrogate it from the inside out. — Lidia Yuknavitch
With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense. — Kevin Systrom
What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper, write it in the present tense. You might begin by writing, 'I am so happy and grateful now that...' and then explain how you want your life to be in every area. — Bob Proctor
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed — Brian Tracy
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment. — Mark Steyn
Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly. — Art Garfunkel
People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective. — Diane Sawyer
A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the present tense and they cut loose the pages and shuffle them around - all that kind of stuff. — Philip Pullman
My last defense / Is the present tense. — Gwendolyn Brooks
Politics is history in the present tense. — John Avlon
I love you present tense. — John Green
These tenses--past, present and future--are not the tenses of time; they are tenses of the mind. That which is no longer before the mind becomes the past. That which is before the mind is the present. And that which is going to be before the mind is the future. Past is that which is no longer before you. Future is that which is not yet before you. And present is that which is before you and is slipping out of your sight. Soon it will be past.... — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]
And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history. — James Joyce
What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense. — Bob Proctor
A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional. — Stephen Covey
When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense. — Deborah Levy
Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward. — Douglas Coupland
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense. All waits, suspended. Suspended the autumn trees, the autumn sky, anonymous people. A blackbird, poor fool, sings out of season from the willows by the lake. A flight of pigeons over the houses; fragments of freedom, hazard, an anagram made flesh. And somewhere the stinging smell of burning leaves. — John Fowles
Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it. — Allen Wier
In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees; but three tenses dizzy my consciousness: my present, the time of Jesus, and that of the photographer, all this under the instance of 'reality' - and no longer through the elaborations of the text, whether fictional or poetic, which itself is never credible down to the root. — Roland Barthes
Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism. — Unknown
By doing what I do, by just staying, pardon me, true to myself and maintaining my maverick position, unbranded, unbought in a corporate sense, I've managed to migrate to and participate in the work of people far younger than my own children. This astounds me. It makes me feel all at once, beyond retirement age, as a player in the present tense. I'm a lucky guy. — Van Dyke Parks
I think everybody came into it with the understanding that they would go through an experience that is literally not by the book, that is not executing the script and then going home, but living and breathing these characters and being in the moment with each other, and improvising and creating a lot of present-tense intensity between characters. — Oren Moverman
We can't handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what's done to women in our present tense every second of the day worldwide? Or next door? Or in political or medical discourse? Please. That idea just makes me want to crap on a table at a very fancy restaurant. — Lidia Yuknavitch
From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge. — Joseph Boyden
The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it. — Dennis Potter
I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something. — Henry Rollins
Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense. — Tom Hooper
Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur. — Guillermo del Toro
It's difficult to get an audience to want to keep up with you, stay present tense. But there's never been a big lag in my career between product. I've constantly tried to pull my audience up into what I'm doing present tense, and they've been usually happy to go there with me. — Kenny Loggins
I do believe that the very tense relationship between the United States and Iran presents a challenge to the United States. But to discuss Iran as that type of a threat I find somewhat unconvincing, mindful of the fact that Iran actually doesn't have those military capabilities that would be needed to refer to it as that type of threat. — Trita Parsi
What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to
know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know. — Samuel Beckett
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