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.
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Act-act in the living Present!
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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.
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And now, Lord, what wait I for?
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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.
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As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.
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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.
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.
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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.
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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.
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Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own-but only that; the rest belongs to chance.
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Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
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Few of us ever live in the present, we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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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."
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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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