1,208 Quotes About Present

To create a beginning is to fashion an ending. And to experience an ending is to create space for a beginning. And in this choreographed cycle I can always have confidence that any wall is a door waiting to happen.

He questioned the present, the past, and he realized that life had a way of preparing you for nothing at all.

Afraid of the present, the uncertain future, more afraid of the past, for the past he could not change and everything from this point forward could have been predetermined by circumstances beyond his control.

I wouldn’t suggest that we fear the past. Nor would I suggest that we find ourselves frightened by the future. Rather, I would suggest that we learn from the former to enhance the latter. And not to do that would be the thing I’d fear.

Older drunks tend to live in the past, mainly because they are destroying the present, and have little care for the future.

Don't live in the past. Enjoy the present moment and think of future. And happiness will follow you.

The belief that modern science is on its deathbed is nothing but a flight of wishful imagination. It provides solace to those who regard modern science as the source of evil in the world. But wishing death to the enemy seldom causes him to die. As a matter of fact, far from being a sputtering candle, modern science is today more vigorous, faster expanding, and more secure in its power and scope than it has ever been in the past

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

The old world is dropping and receding away. I am not bothered about the future. All that we have is this moment, this moment of now.