Present Quotes
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By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.
Marianne Williamson
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When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
Christopher Ricks
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Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Having rationalized his economic syste, that is, having saturated it with consciousness and planfulness, man will not leave a trace of the present stagnant and worm-eaten domestic life.
Leon Trotsky
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Yoga always helps me slow down, be present, and be grateful for my health and well-being.
Jamie Anderson
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I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.
Jez Butterworth
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The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
Jon Meacham
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I really learned that you should seize the moment; you should be present in the moment.
V. Bozeman
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Motivation is present in the animal kingdom but does not extend throughout it.
Alfred Mele
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What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.
Haruki Murakami
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The highest place was given to Him, who died on the cross, far above all principality and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named. There He is now the Man in the Glory. Once more let me state it, the Lord Jesus Christ is corporeally present in the highest heaven. Everything depends on this. If His physical resurrection and corporeal presence in the highest heaven is denied, His present work and future work are an impossibility, and we rob ourselves of every comfort joy and peace. Then, too, His atoning work on the cross has no meaning for us.
Arno C. Gaebelein
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The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.
Courtney Love