No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present’? I forget.

Don’t you be thinking,’ she says, ‘on things that are done and can’t be changed. All right, dear girl? You think of the time to come.

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built...

Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That’s the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real–the here-and-now. Seize the day.

The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.

Le présent serait plein de tous les avenirs, si le passé n’y projetait déjà une histoire.

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

I have always lived in the present, accepted the misfortunes, made peace with the disappointments, delighted in its little blessings, found happiness in whatever the present moment has offered and sat in the shade of...

Make the best of what you have today.Today is the day.The best is here: now, it is always be at the present moment.

Aw, Sophronia, how thoughtful. You brought me a present!

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.

Is the ash in trees, babies, flowers, and visions of Godbetter than the visions themselves? Then you think,none of this is tangible or concrete. So you have another cigaretteand think about the (not one) but...

Delectable or detestable, all depends on what you place on the table

Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it’s in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there....

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

The all-knowing yesterday is obsolete today.

The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn’t know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

If you are expressing gratitude then you are in the present moment. If you are in the present moment then you are expressing gratitude.

One of the greatest achievements of today is getting rid of the present contractor.

Sabemos que el pasado, el presente y el porvenir ya están, minucia por minucia, en la profética mente de Dios, en Su eternidad; lo extraño es que los hombres puedan mirar, indefinidamente, hacia atrás pero...

People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past every day.

Contrary to popular belief: Knowing where you are from will not really tell you where you are going. It will merely tell you why you are where you are.

Accept the past; embrace the present; consider the future.

Paraphrasing Yeats: It was as the Irish poet had written, a waste of breath, the years that had gone past, the years to come. There was only the present moment to live and die in....

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not...

she’s right.” With flattery and promises of power, I could get the courts to rule what I construe as against God and in favor of pornography, and thus, I would evict God from the courthouse,...

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

A man cannot fully embrace his future—until he first releases his past.

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

Appreciate the lessons of the past and enjoy the newness of the future, yet remember the present is today.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.

History is about the past. Yet it exists only in the present – the moment of its creation as history provides us with a narrative constructed after the events with which it is concerned. The...

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries...

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You...

It is important to be considerate of the future, but when we invest all of our present in our future hopes, we are placing a lot of value on what is inevitably in doubt.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.

The Creation Museum uses fossils to present evidence that there was a global catastrophe, Noah’s Flood, that killed and preserved the remains of creatures all over the earth.

Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future.

If you’re constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you would have done if you only had the chance, you will miss your life. Ok, you will...

Live in the present. Tomorrow is a puzzle you can only solve with the answers you find today.

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.Let the Extirpation continue....

What is important is to understand the true boundaries of reality, not the probable boundaries of possible future events. Although boundary conditions operate on the future, they are probabilistic constraints, not absolutely determined fact. We...

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how...