The Present Quotes
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.
Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.
Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
When we ground ourselves in the present moment, we spontaneously connect better with others. We become more responsive and less reactive, listening more deeply and speaking with greater clarity.
I try to learn from the past but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
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 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.
I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.
Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you and anything that is ever going to happen to you is just a thought.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find we have lost the future.
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.
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.
Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.
The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.
The past and present are only our means the future is always our end. Thus we never really live but only hope to live.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.
In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.
The statue of the Laughing Buddha act as a good friend. Whenever we are off the track, his smiling face can bring us back to the present moment, to a positive mood.
I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!
Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...
The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Let the world kiss you, sister. Let the moment kiss the most raw and tender spot in your heart until you cannot help but surrender, open.
I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.