1,208 Quotes About Present

The misfortunes of yesterday hold the fortunes of tomorrow.

I don’t want to fear the mess that I’ve made of the past, nor fear the mess that I feel I’ll make of the future. What I want to do is to realize that I stand in a moment between both that is dictated by neither. Therefore, I have the power to heal from the former and change the latter.

If I say "A lotus for you, a Buddha to be," it means, "I see clearly the Buddha nature in you.

The path is uncharted. It comes into existence moment by moment and at the same time drops away behind us. It's like riding on a train sitting backwards. We can't see where we're headed, only where we've been. This is a very encouraging teaching, because it says that the source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today. The source of wisdom is whatever is happening to us right at this very instant.

We need to let the past be the preparation for the future, not the place that is our future.

The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.

The future depends on what you do today.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.