Present Quotes

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Thomas Fuller

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

Eckhart Tolle

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection

Eckhart Tolle, Practicing The Po

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

Horace

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking 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 just use the future to escape the present.

John Green

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

Albert Einstein

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.

Alice Morse Earle

We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Kurt Vonnegut

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

C.S. Lewis

When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present -- our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love -- everything that moves us most deeply.

Jack Kornfield

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

George Orwell

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

James Baldwin

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

Mary Baker Eddy

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Igor Stravinsky

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

Hank Stram