Quotes about Present

The present was the thing--work to do and someone to love. But not to love too much, for he knew the injury that a father can do to a daughter or a mother to a son by attaching them too closely: afterward, out in the world, the child would seek in the marriage partner the same blind tenderness and, failing probably to find it, turn against love and life

The past is what the present is doing now.

God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.

God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.

That was history, in his opinion: that sorrow was unalterable and ever present. That tears could be preserved in the hardest granite.

For her life, like human life everywhere on the planet, had speeded up and speeded up until peace was rarely possible. Always there was movement, noise, inevitable and constant distraction [. ...] a madness had seized the earth. The madness of speed. As if to speed things up meant to actually go somewhere. And where, after all, was there to go? The present is all there ever is, no matter how much you lean forward or back.

That's why it is important to enjoy the journey not just the destination. In this world, we will never arrive at a place where everything is perfect and we have no more challenges. As admirable as setting goals and reaching them maybe, you can't get so focused on accomplishing your goals that you make the mistake of not enjoying where you are right now.

Surely, we all can look back and see things in our lives that we wish we would have done differently. But the Bible says, "Make the most of each day."4 Yesterday is gone; tomorrow may not come. You must live for today. Start right where you are. You can't do anything about what's gone, but you can do a great deal about what remains.