Quotes About Present

The past does not define, you the present does.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Tonight you will be visited by three spirits, the ghosts of indictment past, present and future. They will teach you the true meaning of 'you are still a scumbag criminal.

None of us live happily forever after. But we can choose to be happy today.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about your pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what's happening here, and the decisions we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear.

No time is wasted time

Paint the painting in front of you- not the one in your head.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.

Somehow love from the past can be felt in the present and accompany us on our journey into the future.

We, here in Western civilization, have failed to master the concept of living in the moment. We spend so much time worrying about yesterday or planning tomorrow that we fail to live today.

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M]aybe we should have talked about this before. Well, we weren't gods, we couldn't go back and talk about it any earlier than now, but we could talk about it now. We go on from where we are.

I may not always have this, but I have this now," I thought. "I am perfectly happy in this moment and I know it.

Ah, Senhor, os dias correm vagarosos como caramujos, os anos não perduram mais que uma fagulha, o passado não acaba nunca.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. But you can decide how you're going to live now

There's a Buddhist saying that peace is like a sun that's always shining in your heart. It's just hidden behind clouds of fear, doubt, worry, and desire that continually orient you toward the past or the future. The sun comes out only when you're in the present moment.

Fear and negativity exist outside the now and naturally disappear when we realize that now is the only moment that really exists.

Two or three times today, take a deep breath and enter the moment with mindful awareness.

The beauty of May draws us out of hibernation into a natural mindfulness of the blessing and abundance of nature. Gratitude and mindfulness are intimately related, for as we practice gratitude we come more aware, more present. We wake up.

The mind can be either our staunchest ally or our greatest enemy. If we learn to control the mind, practicing the art of staying present, then the Divine Presence reveals itself in each moment as peace, beauty, insight and joy.

Gratitude is a natural outcome of mindfulness. It is also a way to become mindful. We often shut out natural beauty by becoming mindlessly absorbed in the chatter and worry of small mind with its endless self-absorbed attachments to past and future.

Help me take a deep breath whenever I'm caught in the ego and switch into an awareness of the present moment and the peace, joy, creativity and love of my own true nature, my Higher Self.