Present Quotes

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

The future is purchased by the present.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

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.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.