Present
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future — not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.
Be present and in the moment.
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth — not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present.
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.