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Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us. — Richie Norton

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. — Bruce Barton

Hindsight creates the illusion that your life has led you inevitably to the present moment. — Jennifer Egan

Accept the present moment without judgement. — Eckhart Tolle

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world. — Matt Drudge

It is always easy for those living in the present to feel superior to those who lived in the past. — Charles C. Mann

Kofi Annan's kangaroo court ... a clear and present danger to the war on terrorism and Americans fighting it all over the world. — Tom DeLay

The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you havce no control over my future. You don't know me at all. — David Klass

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. — Barbara De Angelis

Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen. — J. Oswald Sanders

Moneo has discovered it is pointless to live in the past, impossible to live in the future, and difficult to live in the present. — Frank Herbert

The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit. — Alexander Hamilton

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. — George Saintsbury

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level. — T.D. Jakes

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone De Beauvoir

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future. — L. Ron Hubbard

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind. — Carol P. Christ

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules. — Richard P. Feynman

The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it. — Cara Black

When learning use the present moment to FOCUS on comprehension bringing the information into the flesh. — Matthew Donnelly

To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck. — John Kuypers

Every day is a gift from God.
That is why we call today the present. — Norene Moskalski

The difference between time and money is that money can be stored for future use. Most people make the mistake of saving money by wasting their time. — J.R. Rim

The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220 — John Kuypers

When you are authentic without an intent to harm others, you give yourself an awesome feeling which is the feeling of self-love. — John Kuypers

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. — Friedrich Schiller

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is. — Donald J. Trump

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you. — Mackenzie Davis

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change. — Carlton Cuse

If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver. — Eric Samuel Timm

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege. — Truman Capote

The present is never a happy state to any human being. — Samuel Johnson

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. — Juliette Binoche

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present. — Jerome Hines

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. — Geoffrey Elton

The past is a closed door, the present is an open one, and the future is an approaching one. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Tomorrow will always hold curiosities but it is the enchantment of today's possibilities which has me true to the present. — Truth Devour

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present. — Stanley Crouch

Experience each moment as if it were the first sensation of its kind ever. Bring childlike interest and curiosity to your present-time experience. — Noah Levine

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too. — John Dryden

When we finally become present in our lives its as if we are seeing things for the first time. — Renae A. Sauter

If you can remain aware of your awareness, that is the present state of mind. — Roshan Sharma

Your legacy is the fragrance of your life that remains when you yourself are not present. — Daniel Taylor

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. — Vladimir Nabokov

Every moment of our life belongs to the present only for a moment; then it belongs for ever to the past. — Arthur Schopenhauer

More reliably than anything else on earth, the road will force you to live in the present. — Gloria Steinem

No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Don't you be thinking,' she says, 'on things that are done and can't be changed. All right, dear girl? You think of the time to come. — Sarah Waters

Forget the past and live the present hour. — Sarah Knowles Bolton

I would tell people to enjoy the present moment and the journey rather than the outcome. — Judith Hill

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If I would expect better spiritual conditions to serve, I would not have started until the present moment. — Chico Xavier

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past. — Morris West

If people tell you that
you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe
them. Real Life is found only in the present. — Leo Tolstoy

Echoes of my past will always have a low frequency vibration in my present lest I forget the road travelled to reach the enjoyment of today. — Truth Devour

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. — Peter Benchley

Each day is a gift
To embrace and welcome — Karen Hackel

You don't rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present. — V.T. Davy

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present. — Swami Vivekananda

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present. — Dan Harris

Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present. — Henry David Thoreau

DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace. — Ambrose Bierce

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. — Edward W. Said

The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind. — Pope Leo XIII

...their eyes are fixed upon the present gain, and they are blind to the future. — Peter Kalm

I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder. — Ana Claudia Antunes

I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world. — Joan Didion

An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see. — Robert Breault

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told. — Dale Carnegie

Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true. — Sathya Sai Baba

Present the court with the next logical step, — Irin Carmon

The present is the only things that has no end. — Erwin Schrodinger

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present. — Lane Kirkland

Rather than standing defiant screaming to the winds to bring the storm,
be focused, grateful for the time to prepare and learn to harness it. — Tom Althouse

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to. — Mahatma Gandhi

You know when transformation happens? Right now. It's a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you. — Jillian Michaels

The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present. — Rajneesh

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me. — William Blake

The present moment is the only one that matters, and what you are doing right now is as delightful as anything else. — Victor Shamas

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but, doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it. — Henry David Thoreau

When you are present, the world is truly alive. — Natalie Goldberg

In this world, all
men, women, and kings
must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God — Alexandre Dumas

As always, he found her better-looking in the flesh than in the memory he had of her when not present. — Robert Galbraith

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me. — Leslie Caron

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee. — John Zachary Young

When you don't know how to build the present, you tell — Muriel Barbery

Mindfulness encourages us to exist in the present moment. — Anne Williams

I believe we should only think of the past if it helps improve the present. If not, it's pure nostalgia. — Edney Silvestre

I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present. — David Levithan

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. — Orson Welles

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. — Nicolas Chamfort

There's no fear of future in the song of life, just the ever-joyful present moment. — Orson Scott Card

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters. — James Anthony Froude

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none. — Alfred Schnittke

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom ... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will. — Sarah Knowles Bolton

I pretend I'm fighting to live in the present but really I'm having an affair with the past every secret moment. — Jillian Lauren

The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future. — Paul Auster