quotations about the present
There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward--toward what?
LAINI TAYLOR
Dreams of Gods & Monsters
Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Hyperion
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line
Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all, the puny all thou callest thine.
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi
Let us attend to the present, and as to the future, we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.
HORACE MANN
A Few Thoughts for a Young Man
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves -- slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
THICH NHAT HANH
The Miracle of Mindfulness