"I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past."Yvonne Craig
Present Quotes
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Present Quotes
Read 23 famous present quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"People live in the past too much. They live the past."Yair Rodriguez
"I never think of the future – it comes soon enough."
Albert Einstein
"The future is purchased by the present."
Samuel Johnson
"Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow."
Horace
"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is available only in the present moment."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now."
Alan Watts
"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."Albert Camus
"The present is the living sum-total of the whole Past."
Thomas Carlyle
"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games."
Babe Ruth
"A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."
Albert Einstein
"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."
Seneca
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."Jim Rohn
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
Guillaume Apollinaire
"The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment."
Robert Falcon Scott
"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
"Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."
Stacia Tauscher
"Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do."
Jean de La Bruyère
"The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough."
Anna Quindlen
"Forever is composed of nows."
Emily Dickinson
"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."
Thich Nhat Hanh