Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.

People conjugate to the present; politics to other tenses. (Peuple conjugue au présent; – Politique aux autres temps.)

The events of your past are fixed. The meaning of your past is not. The influence of every experience in your life is determined by the meaning you assign to it. Assign a more useful...

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists...

A place does not become good by your physical aspects, but by the people who are present in it.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present,...

Yesterday is history,tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift… that’s why they call it present

I am not doing anything special,Just struggling with my Present to make my Future enjoyable.

Don’t stay in this now. You’ll fall behind.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Being there doesn’t mean I’m present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.

Don’t live in the past – you’ve already been there. And don’t live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now – it is sacred and unrepeatable. This...

The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.

Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world...

[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt....

I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That’s why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift… for those who are willing to receive it.

People exiled in the past and disowning the present may build the wealth but not the future.

He was always crazy about her. If he was a king then she was his crest– the emblem of his kingdom. Without her, his world is lost. He left his house or rather palace, now...

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.

Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.

I am the bow of love. I’m also the bow of hate. Same spelling, different pronunciations and meanings. Would you like me to gift wrap my greeting?

I got you a birthday present. The box is the exact same size as a coffin.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than what has taken place in your past.

To envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory

What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn’t happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No it does not.

Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present.

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

I could say now at 66, yeah, I was a fabulous dancer. I was really terrific, you know. But I was always present. I was present. I was supposed to be where I was supposed...

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

I shall not dwell in the past…I shall not dread the present…I shall not fear the Future…For as Long as I live…I shall only think of success.

Never look back; you may only find what you left or let you go.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn’t be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same...

DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

The present is the key to the past.

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are...

We’re so used to just glancing at the environment through the eyes of the past that we’re frequently not certain if we are in fact paying attention or if we merely think that we’re paying...

Be willing to give, but only when you aren’t expecting anything in return.

For your birthday I got you some batteries. They’re dead, just like you’ll soon be.

A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.

If you are present, then you can see that you give yourself presents in each moment that you can unwrap and thoroughly enjoy – the amazing world around us that we can explore, each incredible...

A woman in a box—a great gift for the husband who has everything.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it?Or we yearn for yesterday,...

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I’ll forget that I stood before you...

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

The future depends on what you do today.