Present Quotes

“The art of living is to enjoy the present, without being too anxious about the future.”

“The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.”

“The future is a better key to the present than the past.”

“The present is the only thing that has no end.”

“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.”

“What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can do little or nothing to help us now.”

“The past is a good word, but it is not a good world to live in.”

“The past was a lie, the future a joke. The only reality was here and now.”

“I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not a person who lives in the past.”

“The dynamic quality of history lies in its recovery of the past for the enrichment of the present.”

“Today is a thought, a fear is tomorrow.”

“The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.”

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future.”

“All history is the history of the present.”

“You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment.”

“The events which transpired five thousand years ago; five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years from now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event.”

“Forever is composed of nows.”

“The best of times is now.”

“But the past is not dead; it is not even past. It is a living thing that is part of us now.”

“You can't write about the past without being shaped by the present.”