Present - Quotes
If you`re always thinking about the future, then you kinda forget about the present.
The present system means joyless drudgery, semi- starvation, rags and premature death; and they vote for it and uphold it. Let them have what they vote for! Let them drudge and let them starve!
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.
Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man may present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
It isn`t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It`s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it`s too late.
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.
Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn`t exist and never shall. There is only now.
We choose to live (...) rooting ourselves to a home or a career and using the future as a kind of phony ritual that justifies the present. In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) "the best part of one`s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it."