The Golden Present Quotes

#1. Death can come at any minute, in any way. We do not know what is in store tomorrow, or, whether there is a tomorrow, or even a tonight! But still, we have the golden present. Now we are alive and kicking. What should we do now? Love all, serve all.

Swami Satchidananda

#2. Your tears were collected by the angels and were placed in a golden chalice, and you will find them when you present yourself before God.

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#3. Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.

Anthony De Mello

#4. Some people around San Bernardino say that Arthwell Hayton suffered; others say that he did not suffer at all. Perhaps he did not, for time past is not believed to have any bearing upon time present, or future, out in the golden land where every day the world is born anew.

Joan Didion

#5. America leads the world at present in golden-calf production.

Eugene H. Peterson

#6. The Golden Age was never the present age.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.

Whit Stillman

#8. Remembering the past is always gilded in golden nostalgia. Anticipating the future is always softened with hope. Dealing with the present is just straight up unpleasant.

Tim McGiven

#9. A version of the golden rule to do unto others as you would have them do unto you is present in every major religion for a reason. Relationships are the place where the mystical experience can become alive.

Helen LaKelly Hunt

#10. The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that the present has a chance to expand into a golden eternity of here and now.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#11. The clock of time is wound but once
And no one has the power
To tell just when the hands will stop,
Of late or early hour.

The present only is our own,
The past a golden link.
Go cruising now my friend -
It is later than you think.

Unknown Adaptor

#12. The golden flower blooms if you are ready to die to the past, if you are utterly in the present. And you can be utterly in the present only if you have no desire to be anywhere else in the future, if you have no desire to be somebody else. This I call enlightenment.

Osho

#13. Nothing can take the sting off the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other golden statues.

Billy Crystal

#14. Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.

Charles Fletcher Dole

#15. She was conscious of being alive and being present: a clear night, a golden beach, good food.

Elin Hilderbrand

#16. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Kate Beckinsale

#17. The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

Jared Diamond

#18. Live in the NOW. Live life to its fullest. Don't spend more than 10% of your time learning from the past, and 20% planning for the future. Live in the present, act NOW to fulfill the dreams you plan.

Vikrmn

#19. The truth is that there is opportunity right now in your present day. Every day offers its own set of golden opportunities.

Tina Sequeira

#20. Nothing can take the sting out of the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

Billy Crystal

#21. He thought of the grammar of Gaelic, in which you did not say you were in love withsomeone, but that you "had love toward" her, as if itwere a physical thing you could present and hold - a bundle of tulips, a golden ring, a parcel of tenderness.

Jodi Picoult

#22. We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.

Ben Klassen

#23. 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