Present Quotes

“We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.”
― Robert Ingersoll

“The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it’s impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or may be about to happen in the next instant). The present moment contains no time or space for worry.”
― H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation

“Imagination sees the complete reality, - it is where past, present and future meet... Imagination is limited neither to the reality which is apparent - nor to one place. It lives everywhere. It is at a centre and feels the vibrations of all the circles within which east and west are virtually included. Imagination is the life of mental freedom. It realizes what everything is in its many aspects ... Imagination does not uplift: we don't want to be uplifted, we want to be more completely aware.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain.”
― Mary Balogh, Simply Perfect

“Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without the other. Since the body can only exist in the present, that’s where the mind should be too (unless we deliberately choose to contemplate the past or future). At the same time, the body needs to be healthy and in optimum operating condition so that it can respond effectively to the mind’s directives.”
― H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.”
― Amin Maalouf, Orígenes

“The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester of our bastard offspring.”
― Amin Maalouf, Orígenes

“He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusion
a distraction”
― Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light

“He was always in a hurry for the present.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.”
― P.W. Cross, The Idea Miners: The Lost Lake Dig

“Step smack-flat into

the blasting present,

your heart asserting Now-Now.

You feel neither the pain

left behind, nor what waits

tapping its hard foot

up ahead.”
― Suzanne Lummis

“You don’t get over it. You move past it. You move through it. You lose yourself to find it, and when found, it’s yours and no longer theirs.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“It has been difficult not to descend into my own projections where we, the human race will be, moving forward into the future.”
― Anthony Merrydew, The Dumb Dumb's Handbook - To Artificial Intelligence: And It's Part in Your Downfall

“When key figures in the development of AI announce to the world, that our technology will consume us in the next two to three decades, perhaps we should listen.”
― Anthony Merrydew, The Dumb Dumb's Handbook - To Artificial Intelligence: And It's Part in Your Downfall

“Looking-forward-to is a diversion
that takes us out of the presence.”
― Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“How much of your life do you spend looking forward to being somewhere else?”
― Matthew Flickstein, Journey to the Center: A Meditation Workbook

“Your Today’s Are Affected by Your Yesterday, So Live Today Right and Change Your Tomorrow”
― Teddy Kelemwork

“God will close some doors on your behalf because He does not want you to look back and say, “I wasted time.” He wants you to focus on the present and the future, not the past.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies

“It’s important to remember that you and the work are now, right here — and there is, in fact, no promise of a future. Dealing in the now as opposed to some possible future where you have to defend the work on practical or economic grounds becomes another way to dodge what matters most — the work now. Futurity is weaponized against one’s own talents, against the only thing that makes the talent worth speaking of — what is before you now and not in some projected Muad’dib future.”
― Junot Díaz

“No future can be built without the past and no past is without its future. The present is absence and mediation of past and future.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“In this case, it's about the present. About instability, isolation. Emotions have taken over. What we see is an illusion, and whatever we don't see is vast.”
― Catherine Leroux, The Future

“The past is just a memory, the future merely an expectation. They only exist as thoughts in your present mind. There is only the now, which is an eternal present moment.”
― Jack Freestone

“Whatever that is ahead it's not of importance to me. What is important to me is that which is not ahead.”
― Mohit Yenugwar

“When I was thirty, I lived in the future because the present was intolerable. When I was fifty and sixty, the day of love and work repeated itself year after year. Old age sits in a chair, writing a little and diminishing.”
― Donald Hall, Essays After Eighty

“Don't let them predict your future, take hold of your present.”
― Seun Ayilara

“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten job of it. Futures are huge things that come with many elements and a billion variables, and the human race has a habit of listening to predictions for what the future will bring and then doing something quite different.

What speculative fiction is really good at is not the future, but the present--taking an aspect of it that troubles or is dangerous, and extending and extrapolating that aspect into something that allows the people of that time to see what they are doing from a different angle and from a different place. It's cautionary.”
― Neil Gaiman

“When the mind lives too far in the future, the eyes begin to miss the present.”
― Okechukwu Augustus

“The future is always beginning now.”
― — Mark Strand