Quotes about Present
If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.
— Anonymous
If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.
— Anonymous
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.
— Anonymous
Meditation is the art of staying in this present moment. A sleepy person either lives in the past moment or is dreaming about the future life. But a meditator stays in this present moment and is alert about his thoughts and actions.
— Anonymous
The present life is naught but a diversion and a sport; surely the Last Abode is Life, did they but know.
— Anonymous
My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.
— Anonymous
I have a present for you, but I need to borrow your arms for wrapping paper.
— Anonymous
Never wait until tomorrow to hug someone you could hug today, because when you give one, you get one right back your way.
— Anonymous
The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.
— Joseph Brodsky
You're worrying about things you can't control. Just take things one day at a time.
— Francine Rivers
It is not the present which influences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.
— Frank Herbert
You had to pick and choose, discreetly animating the past. And was that not the purpose of consciousness, the very essence of being alive? Select from the past and match it against the present: Learn consequences.
— Frank Herbert