The Present Quotes

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

Do not lose power over the what-ifs of your life. These are unlimited and endless. Keep your power in the now, in present time.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Allow rather than resist what arises in the present moment-inside or out. Let it be interesting rather than good or bad.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no change, but between change for the better and change for the worse.

Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.

The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.

this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

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

One today is worth two tomorrows.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

My girlfriend is Jewish. But it's easier to buy her a Christmas present and then break it into 8 pieces.

May the Child Jesus be the star that guides you through the desert of your present life.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.

It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

To live in the present moment is a miracle.