Top 100 Live In The Present Sayings
#1. That's the thing about death that makes it useful. Death was always a reminder to the living to live - to live in the present and to look forward to the future.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#2. Everyone has a messed-up family to one extent or another but we all have an obligation to rise above it. Live in the present and stop sniveling about the past.
Emily Giffin
#3. I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say, 'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.'
Katy Perry
#4. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#5. The past is over and I choose to live in the present and in anticipation of the amazing future God has for me.
Jamie Larbi
#6. We dream of the future, to distract ourselves from the present, in order to forget the past.
Heal the past, live in the present and don't rush to the future. Life is a journey and it will all be over before you know it.
L.J. Vanier
#8. More reliably than anything else on earth, the road will force you to live in the present.
Gloria Steinem
#9. The past no longer exists, and the future does not yet exist," Morik reasoned. "So live in the present and enjoy it, my friend. Enjoy every moment.
R.A. Salvatore
#10. You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.
Paulette Goddard
#11. I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk.
Cinda Williams Chima
#12. In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.
John Kuypers
#13. You can never go back to a specific moment. That's why it's important to live in the present and not the past. Don't let foolish memories get in the way of the makings of new ones.
Emily Coussons
#14. The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#15. I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.
Darren Johnson
#16. To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.
But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.
Toba Beta
#17. I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
Francesca Annis
#18. I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.
Marisa Berenson
#19. Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.
Harold Bloom
#20. I call this the Relativistic Weekend Effect. We live in the present, but our happiness relies heavily on the future. Our mood is as much expectation as experience.
Hugh Howey
#21. Learn from the past live in the present plan for the future
Audrey Farrell
#22. The present is precious gift.
The past cannot be replayed.
The future is no guarantee.
Live in the present.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#23. I live in the present moment and easily release all past pain.
Louise Hay
#24. Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.
Louise Hay
#25. Live in the present as if the future is going to become the past that you have changed.
Philip K. Jason
#26. Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.
Henry David Thoreau
#27. To a large degree, the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment. Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year, and what may or may not happen tomorrow, the present moment is where you are - always!
Richard Carlson
#29. Try and live in the present moment. Create appointments with yourself to specifically work on your mental picture. Then fall back into the present moment.
Christopher Dines
#30. I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.
Hank Green
#31. Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they've lived that out, you'll know.
Sara Zarr
#32. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.
Henry David Thoreau
#33. 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.
Deepak Chopra
#34. Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.
Townes Van Zandt
#35. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Henry Ford
#36. Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.
Mark Helprin
#37. Weed out worry, guilt, hate and fear from your life. Live in the present moment earnestly and wisely, without mourning about the past or anticipating troubles in the future.
Sanchita Pandey
#38. 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
#39. Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.
Francois Fenelon
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
F Scott Fitzgerald
#45. Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace and you be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.
Caroline Myss
#46. To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.
Henri Nouwen
#47. To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#48. 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
#49. All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.
Rajneesh
#50. Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
Alex Rodriguez
#51. 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.
Francesca Annis
#52. When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
Mandy Hale
#53. I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
Narendra Modi
#54. Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.
Frank Hall
#55. I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.
David Bailey
#56. 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
#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. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future.
Orrin Woodward
#63. 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
#64. Free action is to live in the present society as though it were a natural society.
Paul Goodman
#65. 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
#66. We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
Chiang Kai-shek
#67. Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
William Osler
#68. The secret to happiness is to live in the present moment with gratitude and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#69. . . .I think a lot of people just don't want to go back. Sometimes that's the best thing to do--to live in the present.
Jamie Ford
#70. Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your brain happening right now. And if that's happening now, what's actually happening right now isn't really happening for you at all. This is what it is meant when people say, live in the present.
Dan Pearce
#71. I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.
Jools Holland
#72. Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.
Roger Ebert
#73. She didn't talk about it: if this past year has taught her one thing, it is to live in the present. She immersed herself in every moment, refusing to cloud it by considering the cost. The fall would come - it always did - but she usually collected enough memories to cushion it a little.
Jojo Moyes
#74. Ninety percent of the population spends time imagining their future and forgetting that now is where we live and breathe. The ten percent who live in the present are the ones who have the stories to tell, the ones who live life the way it's meant to be lived.
Everly Drummond
#75. The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.
Gloria Steinem
#76. The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.
Emmet Fox
#77. If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Les Brown
#78. We all think that in the future, we are wonderful people. We will be patient, we will not procrastinate, we will exercise, we will eat well ... The problem is we never get to live in that future. We always live in the present.
Dan Ariely
#79. Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
#80. I pretend I'm fighting to live in the present but really I'm having an affair with the past every secret moment.
Jillian Lauren
#81. I discovered the secret of writing - live in the present moment. Do not fantasize about possible response because you cannot know the future.
Erica Jong
#82. Live in the present. Tomorrow is a puzzle you can only solve with the answers you find today.
Sean Patrick Brennan
#83. I've spent most of my life trying to make it to a future that still hasn't happened, or avoid a past that won't let me go. I don't remember when I've ever just stopped to live in the present, to hold on to the seconds I'm in. ~ Emma
Rebecca Donovan
#84. To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
R.D. Laing
#85. Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold
Peace Pilgrim
#86. Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.
Rick Pitino
#87. Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.
Chogyam Trungpa
#88. 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.
Pamela Anderson
#89. I do not live in the present ... I AM the present.
Paul Palnik
#90. Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.
Emmet Fox
#91. The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.
Jacob Braude
#92. I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
Otto Preminger
#93. To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
John Kuypers
#94. Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.
Subramanya Bharathi
#95. 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 ...
Danielle Steel
#97. Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.
Petra Nemcova
#98. The way to live in the present is to remember that "This too shall pass." When you experience joy, remembering that "This too shall pass" helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that "This too shall pass" reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary.
Joey Green
#99. Make a conscious effort to live in the present today. When you catch yourself obsessing over the past or worrying about the future just remember you are exactly where you need to be right now.
Demi Lovato
#100. Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.
Marsilio Ficino
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