The best Quotes and Sayings about the Present

Saphira: "Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

No future can hold up to the things that you miss in the present.

Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.

I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.

You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the 'present'."

The past cannot be changed, and the future cannot be foretold. As a result, I make sure to always cherish the here and now.

I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

The past never stops, it reviews the present.

The present is the only thing that has no end.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

The best drivers don't dwell on the future or the past. The best drivers focus only on the present.

I live in the present with an eye on the future.

I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

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

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.

Marty, the future isn't written. It can be changed... you know that. Anyone can make their future whatever they want it to be.

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

The future ain’t what it used to be.

Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

Oh yes. The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

Timon: "You gotta put your past behind ya. Look kid, bad things happen, and you can't do anything about it, right?"
Simba: "Right."
Timon: "Wrong!"

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck.

The past is always with us, Tyler. Now, you can try and run away but it's always there.

Peeta: "I would love to stop this moment, here and now, and live in it forever."

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

Life is full of small, perfect moments.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

I might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to.

That's the spirit - one part brave, three parts fool.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

The only important things in life are the traces of love we leave behind.

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave.