Top 69 Stay Present Quotes
#1. Stay present for the "now" of your life. It's your "point of power.
Doug Dillon
#2. when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are the times that we connect with bodhichitta. Tapping
Pema Chodron
#3. Why am I doing the work I'm doing? Why am I friends with this person? Am I living the best life I possibly can? Questions are often looked upon as questions of doubt but I don't see it that way at all. I question things to stay present, to make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#4. For all of us there is an approach to the seemingly unapproachable. This is the life-affirming work of learning to stay present even under difficult circumstances, to embrace mental, physical, and spiritual pain using techniques suitable for each particular level of discomfort.
Stephen Levine
#5. Stay present. You'll always have time to worry later on if you want to.
Dan Millman
#6. We seek to stay present, even as the ghosts attempt to draw us away.
Patti Smith
#7. When we encounter sorrow and betrayal stay present and learn. There is a lesson waiting to unfold, allow yourself to soften into the experience.
Gillian Elizabeth
#8. Learning to be present to what is and stay present to that takes a lot of practice.
Gina Lake
#9. When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are times that we connect with bohdichitta.
Pema Chodron
#10. I definitely work pretty hard to stay present and focused. I've also tried to create a life for myself where I'm surrounded by honest, loyal, and funny people, because I like to laugh.
Rashida Jones
#11. To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.
Eckhart Tolle
#14. Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when you are working so many hours.
America Ferrera
#15. Sit down right now. Give me this moment. Write whatever's running through you. You might start with "this moment" and end up writing about the gardenia you wore at your wedding seven years ago. That's fine. Don't try to control it. Stay present with whatever comes up, and keep your hand moving.
Natalie Goldberg
#16. All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.
Pema Chodron
#17. Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.
Pema Chodron
#18. It's a struggle every day, to stay present, not to become that ... eight year old who was bullied and chased home from school. Some days I wake up and it's like I'm eight years old again. And I'm scared for my life, and I don't know if I'm going to be beaten up that day.
Laverne Cox
#19. Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#20. It's difficult to get an audience to want to keep up with you, stay present tense. But there's never been a big lag in my career between product. I've constantly tried to pull my audience up into what I'm doing present tense, and they've been usually happy to go there with me.
Kenny Loggins
#21. The struggle is to stay present enough when you're taking your next step forward that you're really making your most honest choices.
Sara Bareilles
#22. The practice of giving thanks ... eucharisteo ... this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
Ann Voskamp
#23. Spiritual dating requires you both to have the ability to stay present in the moment and expand together.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#24. Don't try to see ahead to the nice bits. Don't try to see ahead to the end. Stay with the present, even if it is not so good. And consider how far you've already come.
Rachel Joyce
#25. I certainly have dreams of being on a Broadway stage someday, if they'll have me. I think I want to stay really open to whatever possibilities present themselves.
Sara Bareilles
#26. I try to be mindful in my daily life, trying to stay more present and have more intention. It keeps me calm, and I feel less whipped about by my emotions.
China Forbes
#27. Trying to stay in the moment as an actor and being really [present in] what you're doing and the scene that's going on and where the characters have come from, it wasn't difficult, per se, to really embody and embrace.
Danielle Panabaker
#28. In each of us there is internal knowledge, a gentle voice, beckoning us
toward well-being. It tells us to let go, to stay in the river of present experience, not to dam up our lives by worrying about potential futures or bemoaning past mistakes.
Marcey Shapiro
#30. Don't let your reflection on the whole sweep of life crush you. Don't fill your mind with all the bad things that might still happen. Stay focused on the present situation and ask yourself why it's so unbearable and can't be survived." - MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.36
Ryan Holiday
#31. 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
#32. Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.
Allan Lokos
#33. Let the clock and the earth do their own thing ... Let the comings and goings of life continue ... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is.
Ram Dass
#34. Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW ... always.
Mark Twain
#35. The new trick is to stay in the present ... Get lost in the detail of it ... Enjoy it!
Sally Green
#36. It drew us, because life is made of bits of the present that stay in the mind. The world itself, really, is made of that.
Andrzej Stasiuk
#37. I like to present something that the people haven't seen or haven't heard before. Otherwise they might as well just stay home and play the record.
Herbie Hancock
#38. 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
#39. Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the ancient Tao, Move with the present.
Lao-Tzu
#40. Some people say, "Oh! You have to meditate!" You have to sit in the lotus position! Blah blah blah. No, you don't. All you have to do is stay in the present. When you catch yourself upset about the past or worried about the future, say to yourself, "Ah, I'm time traveling," then STOP.
James Altucher
#41. Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says.
Stay.
Fight.
Live.
Take it.
James Frey
#42. The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand.
Layman Pang
#43. Won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses
Joni Mitchell
#45. I kind of put myself in this mindset where time doesn't really exist that much. There is no past or future. I just try to stay really in the present.
Victoria Azarenka
#46. There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it's mostly those moments in which it's smarter-safer- to stay awake.
Robin Wasserman
#47. 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
#48. don't allow your heart to play games with your head. Stay focussed and in the present. Otherwise, all you will do is scuttle your dreams.
Fahad Samar
#49. Focus on the present moment. Stay in the moment.
Tony Horton
#50. We move forward, but we must stay in the present.
Scott Jurek
#51. I do try to stay open and stay as present as you can be.
Rhea Seehorn
#52. Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
Deepak Chopra
#53. 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
#54. The only way you can rise above your troubles is too force your mind ... to stay in the present moment. The pass will haunt you & the future may worry you but right now at this very moment, you're alive ... so anything is possible!
Timothy Pina
#55. I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.
Malachy McCourt
#56. Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.
Donald Harington
#57. The far we can see, we are! It is time we lifted our eyes beyond the horizon of our present boundaries and see goodies ahead of us.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#58. The present was perfect and I was
going to stay in it for as long as possible.
Alison G. Bailey
#59. I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.
Jonathan Ames
#60. Daily life took as much as she had. The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And if it didn't stay behind, well, you might have to stomp it out.
Toni Morrison
#61. The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.
Dan Millman
#62. To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
John Kuypers
#63. We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
Beatrix Potter
#64. That's what life is, pretty much: full of holes and tangles and ways to get stuck. Uncomfortable and itchy. A present you never asked for, never wanted, never chose. A present you're supposed to be excited to wear, day after day, even when you'd rather stay in bed and do nothing.
Lauren Oliver
#65. The best way-the only way-to be truly healing is to be fully present and to stay out of the way.
Nancy Kyes
#67. Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
#68. When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.
Deborah Copaken Kogan
#69. There is no point in worry or wonder about worse or better spiritual conditions, although that game is available. You will not be able to rise above your present vibration level to stay until you love the way you are now.
Thaddeus Golas
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