In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
Herbert Spencer

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Chanakya

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Chanakya

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.
Charlie Sheen

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
Leo Tolstoy

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick Douglass

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
Sai Baba

The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
Chuck Palahniuk

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Golda Meir

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
Charles Darwin