Quotes About Present

Now is the only thing you can count on, Sam. It's all we really get, she said quietly, and felt that it was the truest thing she'd ever said.

It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It's when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him and to mind the present.

caught up in causes and concerns and plans for the future and forget what truly mattered—loving and being loved, in the present moment.

It was a gift. The

He leaned over, catching her lowered gaze. "I'm the present, Darlin'.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you.

The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now.

Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.

Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.

Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Past and future are in the mind only - I am now.