Present Quotes
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.Lawrence K. Frank
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.Fairfield Osborne
Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.William Wordsworth
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.Anton Chekhov
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.Alfred North Whitehead
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.Samuel Johnson
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.Benjamin Disraeli
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.Jan Glidewell
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.Publilius Syrus
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it.S. I. Hayakawa
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, 200 A. D.
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.Albert Camus, The Strange
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.Sir Arther Connan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.Anais Nin
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.Lillian Eichler Watson
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.Homer, The Odyssey
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.Albert Einstein
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.Rodney Yee
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.Russell Hoban
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?Confucius, Analects
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Men have no right to put the well - Being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.Edmund Burke
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.Madame Chiang
Most people my age are dead at the present time.Casey Stengel
The future is much like the present, only longer.Don Quisenberry
Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.William Shakespeare
I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,Walt Whitman
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.Katherine Mansfield
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.Anon.
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.Dietrich Bonhoeffe