Be Present Quotes

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

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

The future is the worst thing about the present.

When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

Life is a series of choices that are made in the present moment.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

The art of life is to live in the present moment

Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy.

You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.

You can be very much aware that when you are stressed, it always is a sign you have lost the present moment. So, you can choose to re-enter the present moment.

Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

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

When shall we live if not now?

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.

The only moment ever available to you is the present moment. Everything else is memory or imagination.

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.

You should enjoy the present moment because this is all you have. Create for tomorrow, but live in and for today.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

Don't Let the Elusive Present Moment Get Used Up by Thoughts that Aren't in the Here & Now

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

Sometimes the best Christmas present is remembering what you've already got.

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.

When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.

The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.

The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.