1222 Present Quotes for You to Enjoy

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future. William Wordsworth

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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? Thomas Jefferson

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. Albert Camus

Future Giving Lies Generosity Toward Real Present

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you. Eckhart Tolle

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Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. Nikola Tesla

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. Niccolo Machiavelli

Broken Word Past Promise Given Present Necessity

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present. Nick Lampson

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Lao Tzu

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. Taylor Caldwell

Christmas Alone Past Steal Never Message Your Present

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Alan Watts

Future Past Real Exist Past And Future Which Realized Illusions Present

Confine yourself to the present. Marcus Aurelius

Yourself Confine Present

To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source. Debbie Ford

The future is no more uncertain than the present. Walt Whitman

Future Uncertain More Than Present

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end. Eckhart Tolle

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. Meister Eckhart

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Hope Future Man Enemy Others Claim Abandon High Vitality Inspiration Head Takes Himself Enables His Source Optimism Account Essence Where Hold Present Resigned

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Frederick Douglass

Future Past Herself False America Binds Present

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Future Heart Fear Past Manly Meet Back Shadowy Wisely Look Without Go Improve Again Forth Thine Present

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen. Margaret J. Wheatley

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. Rabindranath Tagore

Dark Matter Will Become Own Something My Own Through Come Make Terrific Another How Go Version Optimist Door Present

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. Warren G. Harding

Politics Healing Revolution Restoration Normalcy America Present Need

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln

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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now. Eckhart Tolle

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