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The Present Quotes


These are some of the best 'The Present' quotations and sayings.


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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

Act-act in the living Present!

All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

And if not now, when?

And now, Lord, what wait I for?

Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go to the place from which I shall not return.

As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thy allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.

Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own-but only that; the rest belongs to chance.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Few of us ever live in the present, we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Happy the man, and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who, secure within, can say "Tomorrow, do thy worst For I have lived today."

Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.


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