Quotes About The Here And Now

#1. History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

Andrew Marr

#2. Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#3. In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.

Thomas Frank

#4. You have the here and now. You have a future. Deal with the past so you can stop looking back. It's just the pain.

Jessica Park

#5. She believes that her daughter was in agony and that she chose not to suffer; she needs to believe that through her death Kim now lives on a higher plane. "Why else are flowers so beautiful?" she says to me. "why is the sky such a perfect shade of blue? There has to be more than the here and now.

Jill Bialosky

#6. When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now. Yes, there is tension between the two of them.

Alycia Debnam Carey

#7. Play hard, work hard, love hard ... The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the here-and-now instead of a hoped-for hereafter, and make every day count in some meaningful way and do something-no matter how small it is-to make the world a better place.

Michael Shermer

#8. We need to think about that future more often. I confess I don't. My mind is tied too much to the here and now and not enough to God's future kingdom.

Scot McKnight

#9. To me this is a dangerous doctrine, which justifies inflicting real pain in the here and now on disadvantaged people on the basis of forestalling a distant possibility of doom.

Matt Ridley

#10. 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

#11. Sadie wondered if his focus on the past helped him escape the here and now.

Valerie Ormond

#12. There is no task as urgent for us as to learn daily how to die, but our knowledge of death is not increased by the renunciation of life; only the ripe fruit of the here and now that has been seized and bitten will spread its indescribable taste in us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#13. There is always Something More than what we see,
There is always Something Within for us to find,
And there is always Something Beyond the here and now.

Lena Karynn Tesla

#14. My surfboard is a 7-foot-3-inch spoon made by Rip Curl, kind of between a longboard and a shortboard. Surfing brings me into the here and now. It's a dance with the present.

Mark Ruffalo

#15. This is the real secret of life
to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Alan W. Watts

#16. The here-and-now mountain
is a tiny piece of a piece of straw
blown off into emptiness.

Rumi

#17. Sometimes we forget to appreciate the things that truly matter because our vision is so clouded by all of the mundanes. The here and now become our obsession , and we forget the concept of our finite state because with all the little things vying for our attention it feels like we'll go on forever.

Lynetta Halat

#18. Wicca offered real, not pretended, means for the individual to express the art, beauty, and reality of ritual, including magic, in the here and now.
Paul Turnbull

Arin Murphy-Hiscock

#19. The only thing which existed was the here and now, future and past crumbling at our sides.

Paula Becka

#20. No what-might-have-beens. If God says not to worry about tomorrow, I would think the same applies to yesterday. There's enough trouble in the here and now to worry about how differently things could have turned out.

Liz Tolsma

#21. And like that, the decades disappeared and the memory of that night came to life again. The way John had known it would. He didn't fight it, didn't work to stay in the here and now. If he was going to go back, then he wanted to relive it. All of it.

Karen Kingsbury

#22. Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.

David DuChemin

#23. Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know , Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day Which I, before I was, had lived in God 's own way.

Angelus Silesius

#24. There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten.

Tom Robinson

#25. It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.

Mattie Stepanek

#26. He drew a deep breath, struggling to keep his emotions in check, knowing he didn't love her simply in the here and now but that he would never stop loving her.

Nicholas Sparks

#27. I no longer need to carry the burden of the past on my shoulders, so I am free to fully give myself to what God has called me to in the here and now.

Paul David Tripp

#28. A positive attitude goes a long way. Focus your energy on the here and now, and see how a happier you shines through.

Jamie Eason

#29. I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.

Tim Finn

#30. The strange things about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone.

Albert Einstein

#31. The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.

Ram Dass

#32. I'm all for awkward, frank, sometimes painful conversations about things that give everyone a better perspective on who they are in the here and now, and how they want to proceed from there.

Tunde Adebimpe

#33. The future, as always, felt too abstract to worry about, too nebulous, too otherworldly. What mattered was the here and now.

Manil Suri

#34. ... People don't live in the greater scheme of things, they live in the here and now,

Barbara Katz Rothman

#35. By handling each sentimental item and deciding what to discard, you process your past. If you just stow these things away in a drawer or cardboard box, before you realise it, your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. Pg.116-117

Marie Kondo

#36. I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

John Lennon

#37. I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.

Charlaine Harris

#38. Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.

Sue Halpern

#39. Those monumental anniversary celebrations aren't what ultimately determine the actual direction of our marriage. Rather, it's the here and now. It's those daily decisions we make individually and together that influence how our relationship actually fares in the long run

Ashleigh Slater

#40. Yoga is a method to come to a nondreaming mind. Yoga is the science to be in the here and now.

Osho

#41. Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

Brandon Sanderson

#42. [Great literature] lifts you out of the here and now and brings you closer to the angels.

Allison Burnett

#43. Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

Marcel Proust

#44. We weren't created to find our satisfaction in the little, earthbound kingdom treasures of the here and now. We were created to seek a better treasure, and in so doing to be eternally grateful and satisfied.

Paul David Tripp

#45. By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.

Umberto Eco

#46. Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.

Rohinton Mistry

#47. The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.

Ilchi Lee

#48. God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

Mattie Stepanek

#49. This time the skin seperates and she blinks her way back into the universe, watches the valley fold open, the blood seaming up along the cut and pressing out, blue to red in the air of this world, and as usual the pain springs her into the here and now.

Martha O'Connor

#50. Learn to love, enjoy and embrace what you have in the here and now. That's all you really need to be happy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#51. I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

Peter McWilliams

#52. You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

Neil Postman

#53. The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

Ann Richards

#54. I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now.

Tricia Helfer

#55. It is our nature to be strong and independent. Yet, there is no room for the ego in suffering. This stripping of my ego opens the doors to authentic relating to others. As I am drawn closer to others, I am experiencing God in the here and now.

Timothy J. Keller

#56. All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,
is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#57. Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.

Elif Shafak

#58. Life is in the here and now.
Either we meet it, we live it-or we miss it.

Vimala Thakar

#59. Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real
the here-and-now. Seize the day.

Saul Bellow

#60. I often wonder if God, in His sovereignty, allows the eyesight of the aged to cast a dim view of the here and now so that we may focus our spiritual eyes on the ever after.

Billy Graham

#61. According to the Buddha, life is available only in the here and now, the present moment. He said, "The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment." If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#62. The first doorway (or chakra) is what I call in the book, the Doorway of Safety. This doorway relates to feeling safe in life and being present in the here and now. It's only when we are really grounded and safe that we're able to relax and open up our hearts.

Marci Shimoff

#63. An eternally changing world offers no future for which you must aim. With no future to aspire to, you are free to live fully in the here and now.

R.L. Prendergast

#64. Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

Eric Berne

#65. To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.

Henri Nouwen

#66. Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.

Octavio Paz

#67. By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.

Jean Chatzky

#68. I can't help my mind skipping over the here-and-now and racing on, to what might come next. Consequence and regret and other might-have-beens: plotting out every angle and scenario, knowing all along that the path I take means missing something else.

Abigail Haas

#69. As the writings of Walton and others suggest, many evangelicals view the requirements of U.S. national security in the here-and-now and the final accomplishment of Christ's saving mission at the end of time as closely related if not indistinguishable.

Andrew J. Bacevich

#70. We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.

Bob Ainsworth

#71. Each new breath and moment is a gift. We can choose to start with a clean slate in the here and now.

K.J. Kilton

#72. I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?

Patrick Macnee

#73. It seemed like the only way to keep breathing was to focus on the here and now, moment by moment, keeping my mind frozen cold to anything else.

Jennifer Castle

#74. Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#75. People who are rooted in the here and now, who are not defeated by their limitations, who don't compare themselves to others, who confidently advance along their chosen path-such people are happy, such people are truly great.

Daisaku Ikeda

#76. A friend of mine in the ER told me that the animal consciousness is one of the here-and-now and that the human being can approximate it by drinking five martinis while soaking in a hot tub.

Thom Jones

#77. as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from the here and now.

David Foenkinos

#78. The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

Bruce Lee

#79. All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

#80. In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.

Ann Leckie

#81. In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

Kit Williams

#82. God hasn't called us to something in a year. We're called for the here and now. We were not made to survive today for some potential future endeavor, something that maybe he'll do through us one day.

Mark Hall

#83. It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.

Dorothy Allison

#84. Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.

George F. Will

#85. I cannot be grasped in the here and now,
For my dwelling place is much among the dead,
As the yet unborn,
Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual,
But still not close enough.

Paul Klee

#86. You can only know how you feel in the here and now, not how you'll feel years, months or even days down the line.

Kamila Shamsie

#87. When I lived in South Africa, someone told me what the longest road in Africa is. It's not the road from Cairo to Capetown, it's the way from your head to your heart, and from there to the here and now.

Bert Hellinger

#88. We need to learn to live in the here and now; this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.

Satish Kumar

#89. Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

Anne Cassidy

#90. What we have is the here and now, and what we have is each other, and let's find a way to deal truthfully with each other.

Christopher Eccleston

#91. The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and Now, the eternal present, the timeless time of the Oneness.

Human Angels

#92. So my free advice is to always find something to love and to make you laugh - something that will keep you in the here and now. Hounds are good at it, and they work for me. They may or may not work for you.

Kevin Hearne

#93. Cause we're the here and now generation. 24/Seven

Big Time Rush

#94. What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now.

Craig Brown

#95. The future can always wait so long as the here-and-now is rapturous.

Philip Sington

#96. The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

Henri Nouwen

#97. If war is the health of the state, despair is the health of religion. Until African workers and peasants find belief systems that provides them with real hope of happiness in the here and now, they will continue to grasp at religion's false hope of happiness in the hereafter.

Anonymous

#98. A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.

John Brodie

#99. The life that the dawn brings us is the only life we have. Life
is in the here and now, not in the there and afterwards.

Vimala Thakar

#100. The unasked-for gift of being with people at the end of their lives...is a simple but profound appreciation of the here and now of life itself.

Sue Halpern