Quotes About Present

inevitably someone will ask me about the word mindfulness with a tone of caution, suggesting that this is a Buddhist concept. It is true that Buddhists have long been faithful to the practice of mindfulness, but striving to live mindfully is a universal quest and belongs to us all. Living mindfully is the art of living awake and ready to embrace the gift of the present moment.

We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.

but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.

Let's not worry about next year till we get through this one, Mrs. Murry said. More French toast, boys?

The stones do not tell us what is going to happen, or what we are to do, any more than the stars. They speak to us only of our present position in the great pattern. Where we are now; here. Sometimes that helps us to see the pattern more clearly. That is all.

I don't know. We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.

There was yesterday, which was gone, which was only a dream. There was tomorrow, which was a vision not unlike today. When was always Now, for there was little looking either backward or forward in this young world. If Now was good, yesterday, though a pleasurable dream, was not necessary. If Now was good, tomorrow would likely continue to be so.

Time isn't any more important than size. All that is required of you is to be in the Now, in this moment which has been given us.

No point in destroying Wednesday thinking about Friday. This one-day-at-a-time thing really worked. Friday

Give the present the gift of your full attention.

At my age, I don't plan that far ahead. I don't even buy green bananas." Maggie Smith in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

One thing I have learned, my friend, there is no such thing as the future. The future is just what we invent in the present to put an order over the past.

The contrast between the previous apprehension and the present relief and feeling of security promotes a self-confidence that is the very father and mother of courage

If, after aeons of time in hell or heaven or purgatory, I were to be asked what earthly life was like, I should still, I am sure, say it was a sheet of paper fixed in a typewriter and needing to be covered in words; not tomorrow, or next week, or next year but now.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

You want to know the great thing about today, it doesn't care about what you did or didn't do yesterday or what you're going to do tomorrow, it only cares about what you do right now.

There are a thousand reasons to blame others for your failure, but none of them will give you success, The only way to succeed in future is by taking responsibility of your present failure.

Live in this moment ... for it is the only moment we have!

Happiness is awaiting you every moment of each day for you to embrace. You just make the mistake that you need to achieve 'this' or 'that' or reach something you call 'success' in order to gain it.

There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today.

The highest level of success every moment is 'being alive

The closer you get to your past the sooner you realize it was never present

Your moment is now. Claim it!

Don't waste your whole lifetime waiting for the perfect life when there's a perfectly good one within and right in front of you.