Quotes about Present
In regard to the present question, while it explains what our duty is it teaches that the power of obeying it is derived from the goodness of God, and it accordingly urges us to pray that this power may be given us.
— John Calvin
Make each day a masterpiece. Don't think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can't today be a great day? It can if you believe it will.
— John Wooden
There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.
— CS Lewis
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
— Mother Teresa
To fill the hour??that is happiness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.
— Samuel Johnson
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.
— Marcel Pagnol
Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.
— Michelle Obama
We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow.
— Martin Luther
Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home.
— Mother Teresa
On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.
— Walter Brueggemann
We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
— Pema Chodron