Quotes about Present
My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.
— Anonymous
I have a present for you, but I need to borrow your arms for wrapping paper.
— Anonymous
Never wait until tomorrow to hug someone you could hug today, because when you give one, you get one right back your way.
— Anonymous
The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.
— Joseph Brodsky
You're worrying about things you can't control. Just take things one day at a time.
— Francine Rivers
It is not the present which influences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.
— Frank Herbert
You had to pick and choose, discreetly animating the past. And was that not the purpose of consciousness, the very essence of being alive? Select from the past and match it against the present: Learn consequences.
— Frank Herbert
And he wondered: What is the now?
— Frank Herbert
Moneo is trapped. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
— Frank Herbert
I have little to do with how you'll meet tomorrow, Gurney Halleck. I can only help you meet today.
— Frank Herbert
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Not reaching back for what was lost in my yesterdays. And not reaching for what I hope will be in my tomorrow. But living fully with what is right in front of me. And truly seeing the gift of this moment.
— Lysa TerKeurst