Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
— Bil Keane
Restlessness Presenter quotations
Happiness and success come from living in the present, not from existing in the past.
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
How foolish is man! He ruins the present while worrying about the future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past!
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
Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Best there is... past, present and future! Ohhhhh yeahhhh!
Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future.
Don't allow your past or present condition to control you.
It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
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.
Learn from yesterday, live for today.
Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.
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.
Don't search for heaven and hell in the future.
Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.
We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it.
Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
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.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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.
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.
We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The future depends on what we do in the present
One of the weaknesses of Indian industry is that in many areas.
. like consumer goods.. it is very fragmented. Individually, the companies might not be able to survive. What is needed is a consortium of like companies in one industry, presenting a strong front to the multinationals. The Swiss watch industry did this.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.
What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment.
We create our future, by well improving present opportunities: however few and small they are.
Let's say your past is your present and your present is your cash, So I look forward to the future.
Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift i guess thats why its the present
Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.
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.
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.
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.