Quotes Tagged "present"

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

The future depends on what you do today.

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

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. 'Time' doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don't want and how to get what we have always dreamed of.

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.

[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary.

We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.

Nu mai trăim un prezent placid, ci suntem prinși cu toții în efortul de a ne pregăti permanent pentru viitor.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature.