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" Quotes and Sayings About the present

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Insane Life Live Moment
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Grip Danger Present Aware
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The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party – and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

Party Claim Wrong Effect
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Laid Egg Past
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Real Toward Future Present
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Happy With Much Future
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Present Control Future Past
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Present Erase Past One
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.

Deeply Realize Moment Now
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All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

Negativity Caused Accumulation Psychlogical
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For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

Demand Faith Courage Present
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Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

Plenty Stay Moment Life
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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.

Better Divided Future Learn
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God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful
Present God Joyful Painful
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We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

History Dam Today Worth
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Life Present
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Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front.

Able Achieve Front Try
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Freedom Effort Present Store
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Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Present Past Includes Who
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Each Eternity Every Find
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Divides Ever Hope Lies
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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Bring Long Long Time Past
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Future Make Only Past
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Future Influences Just Just As Much
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Alone Anticipation Calamity Future
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

Community Future National Our
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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Deepening Find Future Hope
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

History Ineffective Largely Most
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I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Distinguishing Fashionable Glory God
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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Alone Endures Flesh Future
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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Always Moment Point Power
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Anxious Dependence Enjoy Future
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Activity Arises Challenge Danger
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Death Disappears Fear Live
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Deeply Ever Focus Life
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Against Always Life Moment
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Better Contained Create Creating
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Dimension Gratitude Life Moment
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Arises Around Attention Become
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

Cope Future Mind Moment
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I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

Focusing Fun Future Learn
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My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

Belly God Land Live
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

Environmentalism
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I cannot change the past. But I can change the present and the future.

Past Change Present Future
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Begin Change Disappearing History
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I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

About Asked Deep How
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Promise Necessity Past Broken
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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around
Past Place Present Around
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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Design Future Happiness Postpone
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

America Continent Created Does
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