The present gives you an opportunity to make the future the way you want to lead it. So, whatever actions and deeds you do at the moment will affect the future and not the past. Many philosophers and spiritual gurus have always stressed on the importance of living in the moment or in the present. What more, even Buddhism strongly emphasizes and teaches: those who live in the present are the happiest. Given here are some of the popular present quotations & sayings.
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
I live in the present with an eye on the future.
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
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.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
We all live with cancer, whether it is present in ourselves or affects someone we love.
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.
If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.
Confine yourself to the present.
My surfboard is a 7-foot-3-inch spoon made by Rip Curl, kind of between a longboard and a shortboard. Surfing brings me into the here and now. It's a dance with the present.
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Before I do anything, I practice it for a while, and then when I know it's the bomb, then I'm gonna present it to everybody.
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Conscience is God present in man.
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
Funny how defined we are by how we present ourselves to the world.
The future is purchased by the present.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
We've fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Make a good use of the present.
The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.
Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.
