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.

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 meaning to your past and it becomes easier to take a more useful action in the present.

Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!

True stories can’t be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

The past informs our present and our future.

He wanted to be so many people all at the same time. He feared to be a nobody.Only years later did he realize that all he knew was what he didn’t want to be – a disappointment.

I’m very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn’t a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirted or avoided for years, they come cropping back up and stare...

The definition of the future is today

It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present.

Endlich, wie denn in dieser Welt jedes noch so hartnäckige Stehenbleiben doch nur ein unvermerktes Weiterrücken ist, erscheint auch diesem Status quo ein Hoffnungsstrahl.

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

When trees fall on trees, the topmost tree must first be removed before others. Don’t be too concerned about the problems of the past. What matters most is the challenge at hand now!

Any moment called now is always full of possibles.

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

On our Journey, we should not dwell on the guilt emerging because of dropping back to Ego-dominated state; instead, we should celebrate that we are in the state of the Presence!!

Nu mai trăim un prezent placid, ci suntem prinși cu toții în efortul de a ne pregăti permanent pentru viitor.

There is no mystery to happiness.Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn- or worse, indifference- cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy...

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called ‘useful,’ when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose ‘antiques,’ as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives...

There is a present because it works with my theories. If you find a better one than mine, then I may reconsider, but for the sake of the universe—and oh, how we philosophers make the universe weep—there is a present, and it is the time you just left.

[O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.

If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then.

In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.

There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine

When you mix with the wrong energy, there’s bound to be an explosion. Pay attention and switch lanes when the signal changes. What’s really real, is ultimately revealed.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

if you want to match your beat with the universe look at the deepest level of present.

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn’t change the past. The past was set and sealed.

Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in – figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone’s problems that you don’t necessarily actually know anything about.

Today is a new canvas, paint it with all your favorite colors.

When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind – at least that part of it that we can reach – of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which...

Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a...

It helped her [Caroline] learn that something you create yourself is the best kind of present.

Everybody’s trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some...

Life is made up of only one thing: the now. The past and the future could be considered dreams, if only they were as real. At least a dream is in the now.

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

Et voilà, mon passé n’est plus qu’un trou énorme. Mon présent: cette bonne au corsage noir qui rêve près du comptoir, ce petit bonhomme. Tout ce que je sais de ma vie, il me semble que je l’ai appris dans des livres.

Today is a gift.Today is all I have.I be fully awake in today.

Your desire is not up to your decision, your decision is not up to your determination, your determination is not up to your destiny.

We have no control over the future. We can only make the most of 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.

Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models – they are essential to the advancement of our society.

If you have ever felt hopeless hang on The night you’re enduring may seem long but there is joy coming in the morning. Incredible changes are going to take place in your life as you begin to relinquish your past and renew your present.

They want to be able to present this as a fait accompli .

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.