| "Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future." »William Wordsworth |
| "Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life." »Thich Nhat Hanh |
| "Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning." »Daniel J. Boorstin |
| "The future is much like the present, only longer." »Dan Quisenberry |
| "God will be present, whether asked or not." »Latin Proverb |
| "Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be." »Lactantius |
| "The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine." »Nikola Tesla |
| "Be intent upon the perfection of the present day." »William Law |
| "It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| "If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought." »Dante Alighieri |
| "The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future." »Robert Green Ingersoll |
| "There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past." »George |
| "Learn that the present hour alone is man's." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have." »Eckhart Tolle |
| "Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present." »English Proverb |
| "Past and to come seem best things present worst." »Mary Bertone |
| "I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one." »Seneca |
| "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present." »Roger Babson |
| "Forget the past and live the present hour." »Sarah Knowles Bolton |
| "All of life's great lessons present themselves again and again until mastered." »David Ashley Brewer |
| "I came into the world either too early or too late at present, I am good for nothing." »Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich |
| "There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present." »Lillian Eichler Watson |
| "A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present." »Thomas Fuller |
| "Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe." »Alfonso the Wise |
| "One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief." »Aeschylus |
| "Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present." »Albert Camus |
| "Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us." »La Bruyere |
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