Quotes About Present

A suspension of time, a continuous present.

When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ... either they turn to a contemplation of the past ... or they set about to ... alter the future. And when you want to change something ... YOU BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.

If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.

Meditation is the art of staying in this present moment. A sleepy person either lives in the past moment or is dreaming about the future life. But a meditator stays in this present moment and is alert about his thoughts and actions.

The present life is naught but a diversion and a sport; surely the Last Abode is Life, did they but know.

If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today.

Meditation has no goal. We should not have any aim, goal, or desire for having any gains through meditation. It should be playful and natural.

Now is the accepted time.

My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

They say, "There is nothing but our present life; we die, and we live, and nothing but Time destroys us." Of that they have no knowledge; they merely conjecture.

Wealth and children are the adornment of this present world; but the abiding things, the deeds of righteousness, are better with God in reward, and better in hope.

I have a present for you, but I need to borrow your arms for wrapping paper.

Give me today, and take tomorrow.

That is the present: an emanation of memory bouncing on the illusion of the future

each morning we're born again of yesterday nothing remains what's left began today

The sensing and responding level of perception precedes minds, historically speaking, and is also present in minded organisms now.

There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.

Neuroti?ar je osoba koja brine zbog ne?ega što se nije dogodilo u prošlosti. On nije kao mi, normalni ljudi, koji brinemo zbog ne?ega što se ne?e dogoditi u budu?nosti.

You want to hope for something better than what you have right now, don't you? Otherwise you wouldn't be hoping. But then, you forget that you have it all right now anyway, and you don't know it. Why not concentrate on the now instead of hoping for better times in the future? Why not understand the now instead of forgetting it and hoping for the future? Isn't the future just another trap?

You're never so ready to forget yourself as when you are happy.

If there is anything I can do about the future, right now, I shall do it. Then I'm going to just leave it alone and settle down to enjoy the present moment, because all the experience of my life has shown me that I can only cope with things when they are present, not before they occur. And that the present always gives me the resources and the energy I need to deal with them.