The future is the child of the present.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Touching the present moment, we realize that the present is made of the past and is creating the future.

The present is pregnant with the future; the future can be read in the past; the distant is expressed in the proximate.

Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.

The past, the present, and the future are really one: they are today

The past and the future are always present within us.

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

The past is the father of the present.

Do they show us the future as it matures in the womb of the present?

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

The real is the present, conceived not as a mathematical point between the present and the past, but as the union of present and past in a duration or permanence that is at the same time change. Thus the past as past and the future as future do not exist at all, but are purely ideal; the past as living in the present and the future as germinating in the present are wholly real and indeed are just the present itself. It is because of the presence of these two elements in the present... that the present is a concrete and changing reality and not an empty mathematical point.

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.