Present Quotes

6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it.… — Frederick Douglass
Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa… — Louis Sachar
Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present. — Walter Wink
Meditation is really quite simple. All we have to do is embrace each experience with awareness and open our hearts fully to the present moment.… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. — Isak Dinesen
Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking. — C.S. Lewis
The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the… — Jack Kornfield
Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly… — Eric Kandel
Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch… — Marianne Williamson
It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present — Andy Andrews
No matter where you go, no matter how many gifts you give and receive this holiday season, unless you are actually present, it all flies… — Geneen Roth
The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating… — Carl Jung
Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it. — Ram Dass
No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a… — Wynton Marsalis
I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with… — Benjamin Franklin
Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home. — Ernest Istook
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time… — Friedrich Engels
The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness. — Gail Sheehy
Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and… — Nhat Hanh
Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
This is another world to the ones most Australians know. It was explained by my father once that it's like a blanket on the ground.… — Hetti Perkins
Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her. — Paule Marshall
Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present. — Ellen Goodman
I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for… — Quentin Tarantino
The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present. — Publilius Syrus

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