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Quotes About Present

Don't wait for life to happen
~ life is happening now!
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
~ Dan Millman
Live in the moment, day by day, and don't stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what's in front of them.
~ Jenna Ushkowitz
Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.
~ Darrin Patrick
Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.
~ Eckhart Tolle
All stress comes from resisting what is.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life.
~ Eckhart Tolle
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
~ Roger W. Babson
Do not search for SUCCESS off in the distance, but instead recognize it and grasp it right where you are!
~ Napoleon Hill
Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.
~ Joshua L. Goldberg
Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
~ Old Tom Morris
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
~ Nikola Tesla
Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Moving forward is not based upon your past; your future is exclusively determined by the decisions you make now, in this moment.
~ Mike Michalowicz
The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.
~ Nhat Hanh
After about ten minutes' silence, she suddenly said: "Is it true that you have seen much, travelled far, and suffered deeply?" "I have suffered deeply, madame," answered Monte Cristo. "But now you are happy?" "Doubtless," replied the Count, "since no one hears me complain." "And has your present happiness softened your heart?" "My present happiness equals my past misery," said the Count.
~ Alexandre Dumas
His youth reappeared, bringing with it all those sweet souvenirs which are rather perfumes than thoughts. Between that past and the present there was an abyss. But imagination has the angel's or lightning's wing; it clears seas in which we should certainly have been shipwrecked; it removes the darkness in which our illusions were lost, the precipice where our happiness was engulfed.
~ Alexandre Dumas
La sua giovinezza gli riapparve portando tutti i ricordi soavi, che sono profumi piuttosto che pensieri. Da quel passato al presente c'era un abisso. Ma la fantasia ha il volto dell'angelo e del baleno; essa varca i mari nei quali abbiamo corso il rischio di naufragare, le tenebre dove si sono perdute le nostre illusioni, gli abissi che hanno inghiottito la nostra felicità
~ Alexandre Dumas
After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just.
~ Alexandre Dumas
He could not do this, he whose past life was so short, whose present so melancholy, and his future so doubtful.
~ Alexandre Dumas