Quotes about Present

Give yourself a gift: the present moment. People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now. And just as mortal. What does it matter to you if they say x about you, or think y?

How plain does it appear that there is not another condition of life so well suited for philosophising as this in which thou now happenest to be.

that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.

If you can cut free of impressions that cling to the mind, free of the future and the past—can make yourself, as Empedocles says, "a sphere rejoicing in its perfect stillness," and concentrate on living what can be lived (which means the present) then you can spend the time you have left in tranquillity. And in kindness. And at peace with the spirit within you.

To comprehend all in a few words, our life is short; we must endeavour to gain the present time with best discretion and justice. Use recreation with sobriety.

Second, that both the longest-lived and the earliest to die suffer the same loss. It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if indeed this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.

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

I'm fine, said Pilar, for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.

Take what the moment offers. Don't close doors. Be thankful.

Though it's hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She's too immersed in the present:

Reflect upon your present blessings