Quotes About Present

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.

We live the given life, and not the planned.

Life is about where you are right now, and the choices you make.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one.

You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

Don't waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.

You know when transformation happens? Right now. It's a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you.

Peacefulness should be the place we begin rather than the place we try to achieve.

I have found life to be too short to be preoccupied with pain from the past.

Life. It's your birthday present. Open it up and play with it. Act like you like it. (The One who gave it to you is watching, after all. Don't want to hurt his feelings.) And if you don't like your life, CHANGE IT. It is all yours.

Do not ever give a Queen a home appliance as a gift. Period. The end.

Politics is a story about the relationship between the past and the future; history is a story about the relationship between the past and the present. It's what history and politics share - a vantage on the past - that makes writing the history of politics fraught. And it's what they don't share that makes the study of history vital. Politics is accountable to opinion; history is accountable to evidence.

To study the past is to unlock the prison of the present.