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Quotes About Present

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now.
~ Simone Elkeles
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
~ Susan Sarandon
Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own.
~ Nick Saban
Whereever you are in life, however old you are, begin thinking about every day as the first day of your life.
~ Chris Guillebeau
Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.
~ Dale Carnegie
The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!
~ Ruth Ozeki
Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.
~ Bob Harper
Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.
~ John Dewey
Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.
~ Thomas Dreier
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.
~ Joan Z. Borysenko
Life is a journey, not a destination. Happiness is not "there" but here, not "tomorrow" but today.
~ Sidney Greenberg
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
People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin.
~ Melanie Griffith
Life is available only in the present moment.
~ Nhat Hanh
Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.
~ Peter J. Daniels
Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.
~ Alan Watts
It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
~ Albert Camus
The basic problem, actually, is how to get rid of the idea that we're going to get rid of our problems. Only then can we relate directly with the real issues of our life.
~ Bernie Glassman
If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.
~ Christina Applegate
Each day the first day: Each day a life.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.
~ Deepak Chopra