The Present Quotes

The truth is in the present moment.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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."

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

The present tense made him nervous.

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.

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.

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

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

None of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.

I also live in the present, due to the constraints of the space-time continuum.

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That's why I love my animals. They live in the present.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

Bad debt is sacrificing your future day needs for your present day desires.

The most important decision you'll ever make is how to spend the present moment !

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.

Every moment is an eternity in itself. Bliss is the present moment and each and everyone of us needs to understand this.

Become intensely conscious of the present moment.

And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. A good little pointer toward that is to ask yourself, "What is my relationship with the present moment? How am I relating to it?"

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.

I think the most well-adjusted people live in the present with an eye toward the future - I'm not among those.

The trick is not to look back, but keep on expressing where I'm at now. It's challenging to create something new, so it's crucial to dwell in the present moment.

Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.

Who controls the past controls the future who controls the present controls the past.

Think of someone you care about and send loving thoughts in the present moment.

Every hour, stop and ask: Am I really present in this moment? If not, what are my thoughts focused on? Doing this often will help you return to the present moment.

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

We can see well into the past we can guess shrewdly in to the future but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past not to worry about the future nor to anticipate troubles but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.