Present Quotes

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If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing… — Tom Brown, Jr.
A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great… — Zitkala-Sa
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process. — John Dewey
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving… — Harold Rosenberg
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion… — John Berger
The best gift you can give, besides your unconditional love, is to be strong for them when they are present and stronger for yourself when… — David H. Cooke
To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment. — Goswami Kriyananda
To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny. — Alan Cohen
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and… — J. B. Priestley
It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws… — Lewis Terman
The study of the past with one eye, so to speak, upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history ...… — Herbert Butterfield
The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided… — Herbert Butterfield
Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the… — Alister E. McGrath
We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present. — Marianne Williamson
You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward. Reliving your painful past will poison your… — Bryant H. McGill
Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist… — Marc Ian Barasch
Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are… — Stephen Levine
The way to live in the present is to remember that "This too shall pass." When you experience joy, remembering that "This too shall pass"… — Joey Green
There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But,… — Anthony de Mello

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