The Present Quotes

Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.

I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say, "Isn't this great?" or "Can you believe?" And I would react, like, "No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment."

The present moment is that one point where everything comes together.

I live in the #‎ present moment.

I would tell people to enjoy the present moment and the journey rather than the outcome.

Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either.

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground.

(on being born on Christmas Day, 1924) I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

When we're fully engaged in the present moment, no matter what we're doing, the question of meaning never seems to arise. It's because we feel fulfilled and that is inherently meaningful.

With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.

Practice remembrance of the present moment, again and again.

I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day.

Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.

What's not often in the present moment is the thinking mind.

The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.

At the shock of a joke, everything disappears but the present moment.

I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.

I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

I don't think I've ever worked on a project [Paper Girls] that is this personal. We draw so much on our memories of growing and we're putting so much of our present day into it as well.

The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.

When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being you meet - in your business and even at home, in your family - into a means to an end.

The present tense made him nervous.

The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

We can shift from time-bound awareness into timeless awareness . . . to the ecstasy that can only be found in the present moment.

The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment.

The most intriguing thing about the present moment is that it never grows old.

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet... it's so hard to let them go... to forget... to move ahead.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

The truth is in the present moment.

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.

The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the total number of all the men who have ever lived up to the present time.