Top 100 Live Present Quotes
#1. Don't get caught in "Waiting". When I 'Get This' then I will be able to fully 'Live'. Escape the time dominant mind by fully being here 'NOW'.
Matthew Donnelly
#2. No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
Andrea Hairston
#3. Live in the NOW. Live life to its fullest. Don't spend more than 10% of your time learning from the past, and 20% planning for the future. Live in the present, act NOW to fulfill the dreams you plan.
Vikrmn
#4. It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)
Victoria Moran
#5. They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy.
She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.
Kiana Davenport
#6. If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future?
Truman Capote
#7. It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're gifted each day.
Craig Groeschel
#9. The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
St. Jerome
#10. There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward - toward what?
Laini Taylor
#11. Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.
Patricia Briggs
#12. And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.
Donald Cargill
#13. Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry.
Albert Einstein
#16. You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
Gloria Steinem
#17. The meeting of two eternities, the past and future ... is precisely the present moment.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. Some people say it is hard to live in such a way, being completely one with the present moment. Of course, it is not hard. The opposite is hard. Not being one with life is hard, and that is how most people live.
Eckhart Tolle
#19. For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
Alan W. Watts
#20. To not understand neocolonialism is to not fully live in the present.
Bell Hooks
#21. When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live.
Gary Zukav
#22. To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.
Erich Fromm
#23. It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
Vikram Seth
#24. The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.
Ian Jack
#25. You gotta live in the moment. I don't care what you've done in your life, it has nothing to do with what you're gonna do or what you can do. The past is history, tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift-that's why they call it the present.
Mike Ditka
#26. The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
Rollo May
#27. Seeking answers to questions is what draws us forward. When you have no more questions you live in the satisfaction of the present moment. You have no more questions when you finally learn that love is the answer. Love is always the answer.
Kate McGahan
#28. If people tell you that
you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe
them. Real Life is found only in the present.
Leo Tolstoy
#29. You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.
Andrew Weil
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#34. Work and play go hand in hand. A lot of people want to work, work, and work until 40, and then relax. Who says you'll get to 40? Or 50? Who knows what'll happen in the next five minutes? The only reality is the present. And if you can't learn to live in the moment, you'll never be content.
Gautam Singhania
#35. Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
Sivananda
#36. That's the problem with all of us. We've never time to think about the past, and we're always planning for the future. And since the future's always the future, we never live in the present.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#37. Because of the past, so many people are living in the past! No one is free from the past, but we are free to choose to move from the past into the present or stay in the past, though we live in the present!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#39. We live not in our moments or our years:
The present we fling from us like the rind
Of some sweet future, which we after find
Bitter to taste.
Richard Chenevix Trench
#40. Men live by rules they've made for themselves. And among those rules is one specifying that women are merely commodities for men to possess. A daughter belongs to her father, a wife to her husband. A woman's own desires present obstacles for men and are best ignored.
Natsuo Kirino
#41. I always live in the present. I never dream about what might happen. Why? It might not.
Fernando Torres
#42. Live in the mysterious. Accepting and being fully at peace with not knowing what's going to happen in the future will allow us to be fully present and more peaceful in the present.
Matthew Donnelly
#43. Our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any one of us as are the present and the past.
Dean Koontz
#44. To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to let go and flow into a new structure when the right time has come.
Erich Jantsch
#46. Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.
Jan Hunt
#47. You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.
John Steinbeck
#48. Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself.
Melissa De La Cruz
#49. Grady felt a chill echo, the kind that comes when, in an original situation, one has the sensation of its all having occurred before: if we know the past, and live the present, is it possible that we dream the future?
Truman Capote
#50. And besides (I told myself) wasn't it time to Move Forward, Let Go, turn from the garden that was locked to me? Live In The Present, Focus On The Now instead of grieving for what I could never have?
Donna Tartt
#51. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley
#52. People instinctively turn to the past to understand the present. But the questions the historian asks are given to him or her by the world they live in.
Eric Foner
#53. I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln
#54. To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.
Cameron Conaway
#55. i am not oxytocin but i will try to become, because I am Live In oxytocin Society
Sushil Singh
#56. The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.
Francis Harold Cook
#57. I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.
Gerard Depardieu
#58. This is life. You know the philosphers? The Present never stops. There's only the Present. You cheat life if you live in the Past.
Scott Turow
#59. The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#60. Divination is the quest to understand more about the past, present, and future. In other words, Tarot readings are an attempt to understand ourselves better and discover how we might live better in the future.
Theresa Cheung
#61. The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
Albert Camus
#62. The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
Alan Watts
#63. I believe that when we are fully present, we not only live well, we live well for others.
Terry Tempest Williams
#64. But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new
that's my point.
Lauren Myracle
#65. Live in the present moment, you can't go back to yesterday, you can't leap into tomorrow, Today is your second, minute, hour! Embrace It!
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#66. Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.
Carlos Slim
#67. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. 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 made today.
Henry Ford
#68. Only by a life of obedience to the voice of the Spirit, by a daily denying of self, by full dedication to Christ, and by constant fellowship with Him are we enabled to live a godly life and an influential life in this present ungodly world.
Billy Graham
#69. The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it.
Robert Anthony
#70. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#71. Live for the present, as the past has gone and the future as yet to arrive.
LadyTiara
#72. Chronocanine Envy:
Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.
Douglas Coupland
#73. Opening a present from a live person was scary enough. There was always the chance that the gift might be so wrong, so completely not the kind of thing you liked, that you'd realize they didn't really know you at all.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#74. Stephen Schlesinger's Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a book been more relevant to present dangers and future hopes.
James Chace
#75. 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
#76. Life happened in the past. Life will happen in the future, but life is happening at this moment. Live in this moment. Seize this moment!
Debasish Mridha
#77. The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements.
William Hazlitt
#78. Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.
Pope John Paul II
#79. Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present.
Paulo Coelho
#80. When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.
Orhan Pamuk
#81. They had their past to remember, the present to live in and the future to fear.
Jose Saramago
#82. MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.
Hillary DePiano
#83. If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
Therese De Lisieux
#84. It's the age of daring. It's the only time we have. We must live in the present. We are young and alive.
Gregory Maguire
#85. I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time. Yet
Will Schwalbe
#86. The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.
Lenny Bruce
#87. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
#88. It is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.
Brenda Ueland
#89. You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
Henry David Thoreau
#90. The paradox is that we can become wiser and more compassionate and live more fulfilling lives by refusing to be who we have tended to be in the past. But we must also relax, accepting things as they are in the present, as we strive to change ourselves.
Sam Harris
#91. It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.
Keith Jarrett
#92. Live in the moment and be present in all that you do. Don't worry yourself with what happened yesterday or what's going to happen tomorrow. Stay focused with what's in front of you.
Michael Trevino
#94. For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.
Davis Bunn
#95. To life in the past and future is easy. To live in the present is like threading a needle.
Walter Percy
#96. Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft petal, with thorns but now it is left with only thorns which could still hurt.
Ideaswar
#97. If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.
Nhat Hanh
#98. We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
Ulrich Beck
#99. Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own.
Jason Goodman
#100. An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
Kilroy J. Oldster
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