The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, read more

The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on read more

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.

Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your read more

Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we read more

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold read more

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our read more

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... is to set our own conditions to the events read more

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which read more

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.