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
Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment. — Paul Cezanne
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. — Osho
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
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
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. — Eugene O'Neill
If you are not in the now you are nowhere. — Steve Maraboli
The moment is the sole reality. — Karl Jaspers
This is Now. Now is,
all there is. Don't wait for Then;
strike the spark, light the fire. — Rumi
I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune. — John Lee Hooker
Only the present moment contains life. — Nhat Hanh
The good old days are now. — Tom Clancy
The future is always beginning now. — Mark Strand
Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have. — Art Buchwald
Literally all that exists is this moment. — Naval Ravikant
Top 10 Present Time Quotes
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
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
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
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
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. — Robin Sharma
Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability. — Priscilla Shirer
Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Present Time Image Quotes
Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred. — Hafez
He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. — Francisco de Quevedo
Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present. — Federico Fellini
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.
No Time Like The Present Quotes
When it comes to tackling your financial goals, whatever they might be, there's no time like the present. — Suze Orman
But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out
the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If you live in the past all the
time, you’ll find yourself with no present to remember. — Paulo Coelho
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things. — George Eliot
There's no time like the present, No present like time. And life can be over in the space of a rhyme. There's no gift like friendship And no love like mine. Give me your love to treasure through time. — Georgia Byng
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.
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
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. — Sir William Temple
I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script. — Angela Bassett
Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present. — Rufus Wainwright
What Is Time Quotes
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?' — Marcus Aurelius
Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do. — Stephen Curry
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. — Mark Twain
We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only in their community, but many times changing in their own lives. Once they participate, they get their sense of power. — Dolores Huerta
Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes. — Jodi Picoult
What Is Today Quotes
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. — Edmond de Goncourt
What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment. — Nick Saban
The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow. — Peter Drucker
Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come. — Dan Gable
I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy. — Shane Koyczan
Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after — Grace Lee Boggs
An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing. — Vandana Shiva
When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age, they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference? — Frank Costello
When The Time Comes Quotes
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. — Ulysses S. Grant
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. — Samuel Adams
Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come. — Serena Williams
When a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, requests breakfast and taxi money. — Julius Malema
A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats — Charles Spurgeon
Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back. — Muhammad Ali
I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. — Bette Davis
There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying. — Sarah Dessen
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. — William Shakespeare
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
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. — Mother Teresa
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it. — Thomas S. Monson
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
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
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
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
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
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
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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 Life Quotes
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith
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
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
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow. — Orison Swett Marden
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects. — Alexis Sanchez
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
The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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
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
I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total. — Nel Noddings
Don't waste your time consuming what makes you weak. Spend your time pressing in for the Presence. Become so intimate with Jesus, so full of Him, that it does not matter what challenges in life present themselves to you. You will be so spiritually full that you can feed a multitude of other people's needs. Jesus will give you more than enough. — Heidi Baker
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
But the longer and further I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind- a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus. — Scott Jurek
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. — Douglas Coupland
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. — Doug Coupland
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? — Robert Fripp
Be ever more convinced that your guardian angel is really present, that he is ever at your side. St. Frances of Rome always saw him standing before her, his arms clasped at his breast, his eyes uplifted to Heaven; but at the slightest failing, he would cover his face as if in shame, and at times, turn his back to her. — John Bosco
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present. — Octavio Paz
Now is the best time to be alive. I'm grateful for this moment and for the entire history of life on Earth that led up to it. — Lex Fridman
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. — John Vinocur
The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness. — Gail Sheehy
Every time you examine your thoughts you’ll notice that whatever you’re upset about is rooted in a past you cannot change or a future that may turn out to be completely different from what you expect. — Mo Gawdat
Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States. — Harri Holkeri
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. — Henry David Thoreau
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. — C. S. Lewis
Our minds are mischievously clever. Time and again, they pull us back to the past and yank us forward into the future. Our perception of the world – and the story we tell ourselves about who we are – is completely colored by half-baked memories and imagined projections. But in truth this is all illusion... The only objective truth is the present moment – the now. — Rich Roll
This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life. — Young Thug
Governments have actually tried to block early treatment of Covid patients, so we created a home patient guide. We broke through to the people, and the people who got sick with COVID called in to get medications from mail-order distribution pharmacies. So without the government even knowing what went on, we crushed the epidemic here in the United States towards the end of December and January. We basically took care of the pandemic with about 500 doctors and telemedicine services. And to this day we treat about 25 percent of the US COVID-19 population that actually are at high risk, over age 50 with medical problems or present with severe symptoms. And we basically handled the pandemic, and at the same time we’ve tried to keep ourselves above the political fray. — Peter A. McCullough
When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time. — Romare Bearden
You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession. — John Huston
Expressing the matter, in such startling terms, makes it easy to see why philosophers from ancient Greece to the present have taken the brevity of life to be the defining problem of human existence. We’ve been granted the mental capacity to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, but practically no time at all to put them into action. — Oliver Burkeman
The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time. — Pierre de Coubertin
Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do. — Albert Einstein
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