Quotes about Present

And chiefly thou, O spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st. Thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sattest brooding on the vast abyss, And madst it pregnant.

Upon her Center pois'd, when on a day   (For Time, though in Eternitie, appli'd   To motion, measures all things durable   By present, past, and future) on such

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

It's today I must be living.

Live today as if you were going to live forever, for you surely shall.

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

To live in thoughts of what you might have done, or in dreams of what you mean to do, this is folly: but to put away regret, to anchor anticipation, and to do and to work now, this is wisdom. Whilst a man is dwelling upon the past or future he is missing the present; he is forgetting to live now. All things are possible now, and only now.

Change can be uncomfortable and scary. But I believe change exists to teach us to appreciate and enjoy the right now.

The sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

But patiently they bore themselves in all, and trusted in God more than in themselves, knowing that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.(2)