Present Quotes

“Past and to come seems best; things present, worst.”

“The ego ... reduces the present to a means to an end.”

“The future has taken root in the present.”

“Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.”

“The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present.”

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“Mirror Spock: One man cannot summon the future.”

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“Captain James T. Kirk: But one man can change the present.”

“I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”

“When emotion brings us ghosts from the past, only logic can root us in the present.”

“We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.”

“It is the future that creates his present.
All is an interminable chain of longing.”

“Impermanence becomes vivid in the present moment; so do compassion and wonder and courage. And so does fear.”

“Do not think
I’ve reached where I am now
by slipping like a landslide
or evaporating like a cloud.”

“To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.”

“The mind, to ensure that it remains in control, seeks continuously to cover up the present moment with past and future.”

“The present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.”

“We are making the future as well as bonding to survive the enormous pressures of the present, and that is what it means to be a part of history.”

“We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.”