Be Present Quotes

#1. Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#2. Had to learn to be present without paying quite so much attention to my poor old overamped mind, because this was the source of most of my unhappiness. And it still is. The

Anne Lamott

#3. I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

Emily Giffin

#4. Though I go, I will be present. We are on the other side of everyplace, so that you are never unseen or unheard by us. The Faraway is closer than your next breath. That is where we live. And

Brandon Barr

#5. You can't go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are.

Kobe Bryant

#6. In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

Stephane Mallarme

#7. Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don't live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth.

Adyashanti

#8. All my life, I have taken satisfaction in finishing things in order that I may experience a sense of achievement, regardless of whether the thing was really worth achieving. ... Death, I suspect, will likely be unsatisfying because I will no longer be present to feel the achievement thereof.

Kathleen Rooney

#9. I'm most grateful for my health. It's taken me a long time to get where I am, to feel as strong as I do in my mind and in my body. It's through that that I'm able to be present in all my relationships and not get overwhelmed by what could seem like a big task, going all around the world constantly.

Jason Mraz

#10. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person's most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return. More troubling to him than his

Hanya Yanagihara

#11. You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.

Michael Hedges

#12. In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.

Dani Shapiro

#13. You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.

Bob Goff

#14. At the end of the day, your relationships with the people in your life will be greater assets than any material things. Take time. Be present. You'll thank yourself for it later.

Vironika Tugaleva

#15. The almost egregiously English couple, Cedric and Rosamund Chailey, had slipped quietly away when the conversation turned to God. It had not seemed polite to be present when anything so American was being discussed.

Michael Frayn

#16. Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked didnt I think it odd that I should be present to witness the death of everything and I do think it's odd but that doesnt mean it's not so. Someone has to be here.

Cormac McCarthy

#17. The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions.

Eckhart Tolle

#18. Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.

Jessica Lange

#20. I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited.

Taylor Swift

#21. When people are in need, you must be present. When people suffer, you must let them know you're suffering with them." "The good side of bad acts?" I say. "I would not say that from horror comes goodness. That would be giving horror too much credit. But goodness prevails in spite of horror.

Mark Matousek

#22. Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.

Terence McKenna

#23. You don't need to be perfect in your life, but always be present in it. The present is the most perfect gift you can have.

Alison G. Bailey

#24. Practise wonder today - be present, begin again, know nothing, and allow everything to surprise you, inspire you, excite you, entertain you, teach you. Be fully open to life, today, and let yourself live wonder-fully.

Robert Holden

#25. Life is crazy. You travel and you're busy and there's so much going on that it's important to have the moments where you can breathe and you can just be present with the person or the people that you're there with.

Alexander Skarsgard

#26. If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

Alice Sebold

#27. Learning to be present to what is and stay present to that takes a lot of practice.

Gina Lake

#28. Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there.

John Green

#29. When you're at a lunch, enjoy being - I'm always on my phone when I'm at lunch or with things here or there. I've learned to put the phone down and be present.

Khloe Kardashian

#30. Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

Keith Jarrett

#31. I believe that the ten billion people expected to be present at the end of the century will enjoy a far better quality of life if we conserve half of the planet for nature than if we consume nature entirely.

Edward O. Wilson

#32. By dialogue, we let God be present in our midst, for as we open ourselves to one another, we open ourselves to God.

Pope John Paul II

#33. To keep me happy he can't just buy me presents, he has to be present. I want love. Not Louis Vuitton. And that's one hell of a burden for any man to carry.

Amy Mowafi

#34. In difficult times bring to mind my words and the sound of my voice. In that way, I shall always be present for you.

Carolyn Meyer

#35. The study of yoga makes me inspired. And then the teaching of yoga makes it that much more real. The sense that this practice and this tool helps other people be centered, be present, and helps them really [be] embodied and [have] a life.

Rodney Yee

#36. Without the ability to be present we are missing much of what the adventure has to offer.

Allan Lokos

#37. I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.

Nicole Beharie

#38. A fixation with connecting with 'friends' online comes with the risk of disconnection with friends waiting for you to be present in the offline world.

Craig Hodges

#39. It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!'

Hans Vestberg

#40. As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.

Patrick DeWitt

#41. My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It's much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.

Bo Burnham

#42. The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

Patricia Richardson

#43. God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.

Thomas Merton

#44. In order for a person to be able to "turn our lives and our wills" over requires something very difficult for a spiritually wounded person to accomplish - Trust. Yet, to accomplish this step, trust of the spirit must be present.

David W. Earle

#45. Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

Colin Farrell

#46. If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.

Michael Moore

#47. To be present is to be prayerful.

Rajneesh

#48. If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it.

Leonard Jacobson

#49. Live your passion through your heart center. Be present and centered in it when you express and do the things you love, and the right people will find you. When we do what we love doing, the rest of the world that loves what it's doing finds us.

Floris De Clercq

#50. When we learn to relax and simply be present for the animal without judgment, we will find it much easier to connect with animals, and in turn, we will begin to see better responses from them.

Kathleen Prasad

#51. Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.

John Le Carre

#52. We are partly instrumental in deciding what we perceive by selecting what is significant for us.
Two people can be present in the same room and yet experience it quite differently. This is because we contribute our own meaning or our own interests when we perceive our surroundings.

Jostein Gaarder

#53. I got the sneaky feeling that I was present at something at which I would rather not be present. It made me think of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Of Oprah Winfrey.

Herman Koch

#54. I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.

Gregory Allen Howard

#55. But the problem remains two fold: the need for recognition that low thyroid function very often can provoke menstrual problems, and the need for recognition, too, that hypothyroidism may be present despite laboratory tests suggesting it is not.

Broda Otto Barnes

#56. In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

Marcus Aurelius

#57. When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can just be present with the other actors and allow what's going to happen to happen without too much preconception.

John Hawkes

#58. One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

D.H. Lawrence

#59. She suffered from the opposite of "phantom limb" syndrome; something essential appeared to be present, but it was not.

Amy Bloom

#60. I am not the blues, I am jazz. I want to be present in the moment, not wallow in it.

Christopher Moore

#61. Christ's own 'God-forsaken-ness' on the cross showed me where God is present where God had been present in those nights of deaths in the fire storms in Hamburg and where God would be present in my future whatever may come.

Jurgen Moltmann

#62. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

James Baldwin

#63. To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.

Tacitus

#64. I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Mariel Hemingway

#65. The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles:
Show up or choose to be present,
Pay attention to what has heart and meaning,
Tell the truth without blame or judgment, and
Be open, rather than attached to, the outcome.

Angeles Arrien

#66. And shall God be present in creation, ruling over all, and not in grace? Shall the new creation have the fickle genius of free will to preside over it when divine counsel rules the old creation? Look at Providence! Who knoweth not that not a sparrow falleth to the ground without your Father?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#67. I can't worry about what people are going to think of me and if they're going to like me more than other people. You just have to be present and live in the moment and if it works out, then awesome and I wish everyone who is trying to do the same thing, genuinely the best of luck.

Victoria Justice

#68. I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

Edward Carpenter

#69. Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation - choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.

Ian Gawler

#70. The toughest task is to be present in present, but once you have mastered it, you will transform your life.

Anonymous

#71. Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.

Kadir Nelson

#72. But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

Audrey Niffenegger

#73. You must be deadly serious in training. When I say that, I do not mean that you should be reasonably diligent or moderately in earnest. I mean that your opponent must always be present in your mind, whether you sit or stand or walk or raise your arms.

Gichin Funakoshi

#74. But while you were looking out the window, you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly present. Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there, he said,

John Green

#75. That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.

Sandra Cisneros

#76. He wore the unmistakable look of a man about to be present at a row between women, and only a wet cat in a strange back yard bears itself with less jauntiness than a man faced by such a prospect.

P.G. Wodehouse

#77. And I've gained spirituality. I'm aware that before, death was is the neighborhood. Now, it's next door, or in my house. I try to live mindfully and be present in the moment.

Isabel Allende

#78. It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Antonin Artaud

#79. Be present and in the moment.

Alyssa Milano

#80. We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.

Erving Polster

#81. It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.

John Bradshaw

#82. To become mindful ... present ... is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.

Jack Kornfield

#83. Sun, rain, snow, wind. Every day is a good day to be present.

Sue Leaf

#84. Whether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.

Frederick Buechner

#85. It was this: this moment and no other moment, and for the first time that Gansey could remember, he knew what it would feel like to be present in his own life.

Maggie Stiefvater

#86. The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man's best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply be present and have sympathy.

Ashly Lorenzana

#87. You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are - which is now

Eckhart Tolle

#88. Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#89. God could not be present everywhere so He made mothers. But there's more to it. He ensured that when we grow up, we don't forget that He exists, so He made children.

Shikha Kaul

#90. Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

Roger Penrose

#91. We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Gretchen Rubin

#92. And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.

Robert Grosseteste

#93. I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.

Torrey DeVitto

#94. Don't you hate when you're having fun and you know you won't be able to appreciate the details until it's days later and you ache for the ability to be present.

Unknown

#95. I think you have to love yourself and you have to have a strong sense of self-love in order to really show up for other people, because if you love yourself, you're not questioning your own mind any more and you are really able to be present and available for others.

Shailene Woodley

#96. To reach our full potential we must first clear the mind and be present in the flow of life current.

Justin Nozuka

#97. I love to put on frequency music or binaural beats to keep myself centered. It helps me with mental clarity, and it gives me a moment to breathe and be present.

Syesha Mercado

#98. Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

Naval Ravikant

#99. Forgiveness is essential to your well being, but the person you forgive doesn't need to be present in your life because the act really, is between only you and God.

Toni Sorenson

#100. A moment of danger can bring about a temporary cessation of the stream of thinking and thus give you a taste of what it means to be present, alert, aware.

Eckhart Tolle