Top 100 In The Present Quotes
#1. The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#2. Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.
Eckhart Tolle
#3. Know that whatever experience ye have in the material sojourns for a purpose. Know that it is not by chance that ye are in a material or earthly consciousness in the present. For know that all activities of the mind, of the body, must be based upon spiritual things.
Edgar Cayce
#4. Life is a dash.
Pause in the present.
Enjoy this moment.
J.R. Rim
#5. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.
David Levithan
#6. The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories - love lives in the present.
Bryant McGill
#8. Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.
Rajneesh
#9. On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#10. When the Buddha gave a talk to a large gathering of businessmen, the core of his message to them was, "It is possible to live happily right in the present moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#11. Part of me is ahead and part of me is behind; and yet I dwell in His Peace in the present. An interesting dynamic.
Lisa Kay Hailey Blair
#12. We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
Chiang Kai-shek
#13. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present.
Thomas S. Monson
#14. The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.
William Hamilton
#15. There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are
Samuel Johnson
#16. Other people's history can be read comfortably, the way a novel can be read comfortably. By my own history? I'm on the run from my own history, and catching my breath in the present. Escapist. But the merciless present pushes us back again toward our history. The mind keeps talking.
Intizar Hussain
#17. The only way to live life is to live in the present. You can't put things off thinking you'll have time later. There may not be a later. - Katarina Kozlov
Dannika Dark
#18. Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.
Alva Myrdal
#19. Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.
Oprah Winfrey
#20. Suddenly, no one, including me, was in Guescheste anymore; they weren't in Miami or Cuba; they weren't in the present, or the future, but floating somewhre in the formless, timeless space of memory.
Richard Blanco
#21. To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was ...
Pablo Picasso
#22. We can't take back who we've been in the past, Charlie. But we can control who we are in the present.
Colleen Hoover
#23. Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling clearly, and in a way, it pushes you to become present in the present.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#24. In the classic Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel's teacher urged him always to take his next shot unburdened by previous failures to hit the target; as he improved, his teacher urged him not to be influenced by his successes either, to stay in the present moment.
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
#25. F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.
Peter L. Berger
#26. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.
Henry David Thoreau
#27. Free action is to live in the present society as though it were a natural society.
Paul Goodman
#28. the closest man can come to the feeling of eternity is by living in the present
Paul Auster
#29. In depression, all that is happening in the present is the anticipation of pain in the future, and the present qua present no longer exists at all. Depression is a condition that is almost unimaginable to anyone who has not known it.
Andrew Solomon
#30. 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.
Amy Smart
#31. I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.
Jim Gibbons
#32. Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels good, it must be good.
Gael Greene
#33. Each moment is magical, precious and complete and will never exist again. We forget that now is the moment we are in, that the next one isn't guaranteed. And if we are blessed with another moment, any joy, creativity or wisdom it brings will ensue from the way we live in the present one.
Susan L. Taylor
#34. Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future.
Orrin Woodward
#35. What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that "time shall be no more" means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.
Marianne Williamson
#36. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
Frank Herbert
#37. Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.
Gregg Braden
#38. God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.
Rajneesh
#39. I shall no longer fear what's on the roads ahead of me ... nor shall I be in despair about what I left behind. I shall live in the present moment and strive for greatness and work to brighten humanity with each step I take.
Timothy Pina
#40. The typical political ploy was to load up benefits in the present and push costs into the future. Yet that future always arrived;
Henry Hazlitt
#41. You don't exist in the past or in the future. You only exist in the present moment.
Debasish Mridha
#42. The problem is, we have too many cowardly, spineless, selfish people that would sacrifice their children's future just to avoid the sacrifice love requires of them in the present. And they expect their children to respect them for that? Do they think we're idiots just because we're young?
Darryl Steven Markowitz
#43. Practice being in the present. Do what you're doing 100%.
T. Harv Eker
#44. Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
Ann Voskamp
#45. Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.
Ellen Glasgow
#46. A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they're always wanting to participate in something, and I don't often have that element in me.
Peter Shaffer
#47. Enough that in the present case, as in millions, it was not the two halves of a perfect whole that confronted each other at the perfect moment; a missing counterpart wandered independently about the earth waiting in crass obtuseness till the late time came.
Thomas Hardy
#48. Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.
Orrin Woodward
#49. The skill of mindfulness allows you to remain grounded in the present moment even when you face difficult stressors, so that your stressful feelings feel more manageable..
Melanie Greenberg
#50. I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.
Paul Auster
#51. No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.
Gerald Jampolsky
#52. Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.
George F. Kennan
#53. Spontaneity is being present in the present.
Wei Wu Wei
#54. Happiness implies a positive mood in the present and a positive outlook for the future.
Shawn Achor
#55. Our real Self does not ask questions, as it does not require answers. It is there, it is present Now. We are only able to find it if we forget about questions and submit to the Self, radiating its light in the Present!
Frank M. Wanderer
#56. True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.
Baruch Spinoza
#57. If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present.
Roy Bennett
#58. ...we are haunting ourselves in the present from the past and the future via the ghost and the alien.
Jeffrey J. Kripal
#59. Live in the present. Don't think about things that aren't happening. Definitely don't think about eating cheeseburgers when you're not eating cheeseburgers. First of all, it's not happening. Second of all, it'll just make you hungry.
Amber Heart
#60. A man's conscience shouts so much more loudly in the past tense than it ever manages to achieve in the present.
Jasper Kent
#61. I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.
David Bailey
#62. Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.
Allan Lokos
#63. Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.
Frank Hall
#64. I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
Narendra Modi
#65. When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
Mandy Hale
#66. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.
I want to imagine there will be peace when I am gone, that I will see all of the people I have loved and lost. At least that I will be forgiven.
Kristin Hannah
#67. Don't grieve over the past,
It's all gone!
Don't worry about the future, It may never come!
Live in the present,
And enjoy every moment
Mouloud Benzadi
#68. It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way ... The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.
Barbara De Angelis
#69. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
Abraham Lincoln
#70. Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.
Francois Fenelon
#71. ...and any discussion of art vs. entertainment in the present cultural climate invites accusations of elitism and snobbery.
Steven Moore
#72. The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present.
Paul Palnik
#73. Lilianna: Ask me again later.
Tate: Okay Lil'Miss. Magic 8 Ball.
Lilianna: Really, ask me again in a few weeks. I'll have a better read on the relationship in the present tense then.
Tate: You'll have a better read on the present in the future. Yeah, I think that's called History class.
H.R. Willaston
#74. The extraction of deep wisdom can be done at any age, and if we are to love the time of our life, it must be. Imbedded within us is the deeper story we came to live, and the core issue at every age for any awakened human being is the extent to which we are living that story in the present moment.
Carolyn Baker
#75. You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations of being who you really want to be.
Jethro Tull
#76. Live each day like there is no tomorrow, but don't forget to live each day like there was no yesterday either. Live in the present, for it is a gift from God. That's why it is called the present.
Emily Austin
#77. I scarcely remember counting upon happiness - I look not for it if it be not in the present hour - nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.
John Keats
#78. Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.
Mary Douglas
#79. The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.
Pablo Picasso
#80. Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
Bill Watterson
#81. That's the past tense, Tom,' returned Mr. James Harthouse, striking the ash from his cigar with his little finger. 'We are in the present tense, now.' 'Verb
Charles Dickens
#82. I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.
Lindsey Vonn
#83. Being In The Present Means Tuning Out Distractions And Paying Attention To What Is Important, Now. You Create Your Own Present By What You Give Your Attention To Today.
Spencer Johnson
#84. The hard part about living in the present is it forces you to abandon hope for the future. Thanks for nothing, now.
Dana Gould
#85. In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?
Aubrey Beardsley
#86. Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
Arnold H. Glasow
#87. As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
Franz Grillparzer
#88. You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future.
Truth Devour
#89. take a deep breath. Keep your body fully in the present and your mind in the recent future. Don't let the past get in your way.
Linda Kohanov
#90. The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.
Sylvia Plath
#91. Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.
Deepak Chopra
#92. The new trick is to stay in the present ... Get lost in the detail of it ... Enjoy it!
Sally Green
#93. Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
Iris Apfel
#94. An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now.
Eckhart Tolle
#95. One of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.
J. E. Buckrose
#96. In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.
Winston Churchill
#97. There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists of pain that has long since passed and is no longer useful. It consists of precautions that were important in the past, but that serve no purpose in the present.
Paulo Coelho
#98. People get too caught up in what they don't have and get bogged down as a result. There's joy in the present. It's important to just make the most of the these moments we have. Keep an eye on the future, but don't forget to enjoy NOW.
Richelle Mead
#99. Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#100. Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
Christopher Paolini
