Top 100 To Be Present Quotes
#1. Girls are genius at getting through sexual abuse. Often the only way to get through is not to feel. And that is exactly what these fantasy worlds allow: They give girls a place to go so they don't have to be present in their violated bodies. Brilliant.
Patti Feuereisen
#2. I can't worry about what people are going to think of me and if they're going to like me more than other people. You just have to be present and live in the moment and if it works out, then awesome and I wish everyone who is trying to do the same thing, genuinely the best of luck.
Victoria Justice
#3. The toughest task is to be present in present, but once you have mastered it, you will transform your life.
Anonymous
#4. That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.
Sandra Cisneros
#5. He wore the unmistakable look of a man about to be present at a row between women, and only a wet cat in a strange back yard bears itself with less jauntiness than a man faced by such a prospect.
P.G. Wodehouse
#6. We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.
Erving Polster
#7. 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
#8. Sun, rain, snow, wind. Every day is a good day to be present.
Sue Leaf
#9. It was this: this moment and no other moment, and for the first time that Gansey could remember, he knew what it would feel like to be present in his own life.
Maggie Stiefvater
#10. You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are - which is now
Eckhart Tolle
#12. And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.
Robert Grosseteste
#13. I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.
Torrey DeVitto
#14. Don't you hate when you're having fun and you know you won't be able to appreciate the details until it's days later and you ache for the ability to be present.
Unknown
#15. I think you have to love yourself and you have to have a strong sense of self-love in order to really show up for other people, because if you love yourself, you're not questioning your own mind any more and you are really able to be present and available for others.
Shailene Woodley
#16. The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles:
Show up or choose to be present,
Pay attention to what has heart and meaning,
Tell the truth without blame or judgment, and
Be open, rather than attached to, the outcome.
Angeles Arrien
#17. If we become skilled in giving ourselves empathy, we often experience in just a few seconds a natural release of energy which then enables us to be present with the other person. If this fails to happen, however, we have a couple of other choices.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#18. I'm not surprised people are being slaughtered, people are being martyred. Our hope isn't in this world as believers, it's in the eternity. To be absent of body is to be present with the Lord, so they are dying for something that is real and will last forever.
Russell Okung
#19. Live. I want to be present and whole and have nothing to hide, no excuses to be made, because I did my best, and because that's enough.
Shauna Niequist
#20. Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#21. It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice.
Joyce DiDonato
#22. Learning to be present with an open heart for others is the best way to help them heal.
Kathleen Prasad
#23. What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me.
Janet Mock
#24. Fogg's most salient quality as an employee was his ability to be present while she fetched a sandwich. Beyond this, he contributed little that could be quantified.
Tom Rachman
#25. Forgiveness is essential to your well being, but the person you forgive doesn't need to be present in your life because the act really, is between only you and God.
Toni Sorenson
#26. A moment of danger can bring about a temporary cessation of the stream of thinking and thus give you a taste of what it means to be present, alert, aware.
Eckhart Tolle
#27. When we're in the act of wandering, we need to be present, not watching though a lens.
Jennifer Niven
#28. I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.
Sandra Bullock
#29. To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.
Andy Greenwald
#30. My life is going at the speed of light, so it's a lot of just trying ... to be present in each moment ... Giving each situation and each part of life that space and making sure that it's sacred in every aspect.
Mary Lambert
#31. I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.
Mariel Hemingway
#32. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
James Baldwin
#33. I am not the blues, I am jazz. I want to be present in the moment, not wallow in it.
Christopher Moore
#34. She suffered from the opposite of "phantom limb" syndrome; something essential appeared to be present, but it was not.
Amy Bloom
#35. I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.
Gregory Allen Howard
#36. If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it.
Leonard Jacobson
#37. To be present is to be prayerful.
Rajneesh
#38. If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.
Michael Moore
#39. Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.
Colin Farrell
#40. God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.
Thomas Merton
#41. The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
Patricia Richardson
#42. As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
Patrick DeWitt
#43. It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!'
Hans Vestberg
#44. A fixation with connecting with 'friends' online comes with the risk of disconnection with friends waiting for you to be present in the offline world.
Craig Hodges
#45. I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.
Nicole Beharie
#46. Without the ability to be present we are missing much of what the adventure has to offer.
Allan Lokos
#47. To keep me happy he can't just buy me presents, he has to be present. I want love. Not Louis Vuitton. And that's one hell of a burden for any man to carry.
Amy Mowafi
#48. I believe that the ten billion people expected to be present at the end of the century will enjoy a far better quality of life if we conserve half of the planet for nature than if we consume nature entirely.
Edward O. Wilson
#49. Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
Keith Jarrett
#50. Learning to be present to what is and stay present to that takes a lot of practice.
Gina Lake
#51. If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
Alice Sebold
#52. I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited.
Taylor Swift
#53. Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.
Jessica Lange
#54. The almost egregiously English couple, Cedric and Rosamund Chailey, had slipped quietly away when the conversation turned to God. It had not seemed polite to be present when anything so American was being discussed.
Michael Frayn
#55. You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.
Bob Goff
#56. In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.
Dani Shapiro
#57. You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.
Michael Hedges
#58. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person's most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return. More troubling to him than his
Hanya Yanagihara
#59. I'm most grateful for my health. It's taken me a long time to get where I am, to feel as strong as I do in my mind and in my body. It's through that that I'm able to be present in all my relationships and not get overwhelmed by what could seem like a big task, going all around the world constantly.
Jason Mraz
#60. You can't go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are.
Kobe Bryant
#61. I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.
Emily Giffin
#62. Had to learn to be present without paying quite so much attention to my poor old overamped mind, because this was the source of most of my unhappiness. And it still is. The
Anne Lamott
#63. One of the presidential campaigns unveiled more of an infrastructure in place for the next contest than was previously thought to be present, with a spokesperson saying that one of the campaign's strengths is that it does not make an effort to draw attention to with every asset.
New York Times
#64. Love invites the Holy Ghost to be present to confirm truth. And the joy of learning divine truths creates love in the hearts of people who shared the experience of learning.
Henry B. Eyring
#65. Nothing, in all of the Universe is more delicious than to be in this physical body allowing the fullness that is you to be present in the moment.
Esther Hicks
#66. The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.
Sandra Cisneros
#67. I think it's crucially important to be present in the lives of your children. They are my most important cause that I fight for. But I also feel an added responsibility that I want to leave them a better world than this one that we have now.
Tom Morello
#68. I feel like Havana has always been such an amazing, cosmopolitan city that it makes sense that a lot of galleries will want to be present.
Rachael Price
#69. The most important therapeutic capacity is the ability to be present with an open heart and to be grounded in our inner being,in our essence and authentic self, in the meditative quality within, through which we can meet another person. It is to meet that which is already perfect within a person.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#70. God wants us to be present where we are. He invites us to see and to hear what is around us and, through it all, to discern the footprints of the Holy. Actually,
Richard J. Foster
#72. Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.
George Bernard Shaw
#73. to follow God does not often mean traveling with certainty about where God will lead us. Rather, following God propels us to be present to the place where we are, for this is the very place where God shows up.
Jan L. Richardson
#74. We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#75. We must help each other to be present and compassionate. Remember that we have no idea what the person next to us is going through; compassion is the only choice.
Alysia Reiner
#76. I think to be an amazing actress, you have to be present, you have to be in the moment and not thinking about other things.
Tamera Mowry
#77. I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.
William P. Young
#78. The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.
Kathleen Norris
#79. One of the most powerful, though difficult, lessons we all need to learn on our spiritual pilgrimage is that even when bad things happen and we do not understand why, we can trust God to be present and working on our behalf.
Henry Cloud
#80. It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now.
Martina Boone
#81. You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
Sally Field
#82. As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.
Tatiana Maslany
#83. In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.
Maya Angelou
#84. Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.
Henri Nouwen
#85. I don't want to be a princess who sits on the sidelines; I want to be present and actively involved. It's a life with a purpose.
Charlene, Princess Of Monaco
#86. Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.
Robert Grosseteste
#87. Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present, and to keep moving through all of the what-ifs that go through my mind.
Emma Stone
#88. I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.
Giancarlo Esposito
#89. Death doesn't take away the impact they made on our lives or their importance to God. To be gone from here is to be present in glory. It doesn't feel like it now, but I assure you each day will get a little easier. Each week will add more distance from the pain.
Cheryl St. John
#90. The science of the earth ... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator.
John William Dawson
#91. Sailing really forces you to be present and in the moment. You kind of forget about the bullshit of life. Your thoughts go away because you're focused on making sure everything's working. I like being in that place.
Daria Werbowy
#92. The only thing you need to be present here and now is your breathing. When you feel your breath, your mind is with your body.
Ilchi Lee
#93. Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap.
Jennifer Lawrence
#94. A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.
Diane Johnson
#95. When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.
Tori Amos
#96. Working from home is so, so hard because I want to be present for them and yet there's so much to do work-wise. That's the biggest challenge for me.
Andy Serkis
#97. If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success
Will Smith
#98. China is an area where we need to be present. Lots of companies want to supply their products to China.
Gennady Timchenko
#99. One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.
Scott Bakula
#100. For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
Charles Lamb
