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The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good. — Thomas Hobbes

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

Being present here and now is the highest compliment you can pay to a woman in your life. — Lada Ray

All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future. — Nicolas Darvas

Life is a gift. Enjoy the 'present' with gratitude! — Wendy Sue Noah

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal

The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love — Helen Shucman

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times. — Whit Stillman

Life is a one-way journey to be enjoyed, so enjoy the beauty of the present moment with all your heart. — Debasish Mridha

The new is a guest in the house of the old. — Marty Rubin

The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present. — Henry Cloud

The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe.
To resist it is to resist the universe.
Let go and flow. — Deepak Chopra

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. — Eric Hoffer

If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

In the present, every day is a miracle. — James Gould Cozzens

By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking. — Paul Ormerod

Free action is to live in the present society as though it were a natural society. — Paul Goodman

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. — Cyril Connolly

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future. — Eckhart Tolle

Life is in a constant state of change and by evolving in the present with change - Matthew Donnelly — Matthew Donnelly

Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future. — Milton H. Erickson

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

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is. — Eckhart Tolle

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present. — Eckhart Tolle

A present moment in time, is defined by the observation of our actions, as much as it is undefined by the intent of our inaction. — Vincent De Villeperdue

To destroy the present in the name of the future is a crime; to destroy the present in the name of the past is insanity. — Svet Di-Nahum

The way is a great mother, empty yet inexhaustible. She gives birth to worlds unending. Ever present within you, manifest her as you will. — Stifyn Emrys

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness. — Robertson Davies

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. — Thomas Hobbes

Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second. — Greg McKeown

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. — Bil Keane

When we encounter sorrow and betrayal stay present and learn. There is a lesson waiting to unfold, allow yourself to soften into the experience. — Gillian Elizabeth

The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child. — Deepak Chopra

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The promise given was necessity of the past: the word borken is a necessity of the present -Niccolo Machiavelli — Michael Scott

Regret is bringing the bad past to a good present. And nobody wants a bad present — Zion Phoenix

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible. — Maya Angelou

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much. — Eric Hoffer

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood. — Burton Richter

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

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions. — Muqtada Al Sadr

It is the link from the present to the past that gives us a spirit to address the future. — Midge Costanza

What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment. — Nick Saban

Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action. These actions shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all be proud. — Helen Dyer

A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him. — Pope Benedict XVI

The present oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of government mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war. — Milton Friedman

The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs. — Felix Frankfurter

The past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance. — Jeanette Winterson

The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ...
A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves — Julian Coolidge

Breathing in, there is only the present moment.
Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment. — Thich Nhat Hanh

And, as you know, the present moment is where ALL your power is. A reminder I need regularly. Maybe you too. — Christiane Northrup

This is how I think of time: the past is Before, and the present is the After. Before was reality; the After, a nightmare. — Demitria Lunetta

Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present. — Seneca.

There exists for each of us a geographical fulcrum, a place so saturated with memory that within its precinct the past is always present. — Justin Cronin

The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable. — Camille Flammarion

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The present only is our own, So live, love, toil with a will, Place no faith in "Tomorrow," For the Clock may then be still." Robert H Smith — Darren Sugrue

because what is commonly assumed to be past history is actually as much a part of the living present as William Faulkner insisted. — Ralph Ellison

The forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present — Karl Marx

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. — Dale Carnegie

The day of birth is a miraculous day. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense. — V.S. Pritchett

It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos. — Bill Vaughan

It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present. — John Adams

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke — Ira Gershwin

It is not the pain from the present that is killing you, but all your repressed feelings from the past that adds weight to it. — Linda Alfiori

You know what I dislike? When people use the future as a consolation for the present. I don't know if there is anything less helpful. — Stephanie Danler

Do not follow your present course. It is a dead end. The dead end of the perfect English gentleman. — Guy Vanderhaeghe

The past is the key to the present and an ice core is a door to that past. — James W. Mercer

The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family — Mother Teresa

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be ... — Eckhart Tolle

The only way for you to know that you can really make a change is by knowing the future. — Toba Beta

No time better than the present,' I always say. Or was that, 'Nothing is better than a present'? I forget. — Kaza Kingsley

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present. — Billy Corgan

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

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

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

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

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

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories." — Denise Duhamel

The present moment is a powerful goddess. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What is past, one cannot change,
so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away. — James Conroyd Martin

The mountain-path of Action is no longer a path for me; my future hope pauses with my present happiness in the shadowed valley of Repose. — Wilkie Collins

A mind in the present moment is meditation. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust. — Mahatma Gandhi

The past above, the future below
and the present pouring down: the roar,
the roar of the present, a speech
is, of necessity, my sole concern. — William Carlos Williams

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past. — Emmuska Orczy

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while — Bob Dylan

The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N. — Sun Myung Moon

History is not the pure past; history is a past interpreted from the present of the historian. — Justo L. Gonzalez

The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present. — Billy Corgan

The fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open. — Rian Johnson

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful. — Henri Nouwen

The past is history, the future's a mystery. — James Toback

The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own. — Lauren Beukes

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life. — Edward R. Murrow

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic. — J.G. Ballard