Quotes about Present

Here's what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it.

Live the moment for the moment.

It's today I must be living.

Holding onto what was isn't healthy for what is.

The new luxury is to shed the shackles of deferred living—to pursue your passions now, while you're still working.

God says that he will give you grace to handle the disappointments that lie ahead; your task is to live for him in the present. At first, this feels reckless, as if you were enjoying the thrill of a speeding car when you are courting devastation at the next turn. But it isn't reckless to trust in God rather than yourself.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now.

This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of memory, not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.