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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
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
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
Every day is a gift from God. That is why we call today the present. — Norene Moskalski
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
When we finally become present in our lives its as if we are seeing things for the first time.
— Renae A. Sauter
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
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 giftTo embrace and welcome — Karen Hackel
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
I'd rather be on the ground than underTo 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
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, allmen, 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
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
