Quotes About Present

The focus must be on the walk that is life with its string of present moments.

This discipline helps us work on mindfulness—living in the present as opposed to the past or future—which studies consistently find leads us to be happier people. But it also helps us to make the decisions that truly expose our best selves.

Finally, obsessing over the future squanders the present.

Why? If we are thinking about the past or future, "we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes.

Remembering that life won't last forever makes us enjoy it all the more today.

Time move forward, and time move quick. So you just have to enjoy every second, every moment.

I am a really quiet person. I just like to be with my children and my family and being home. I live one day at a time, enjoying the best of life, just living.

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

I never really had long range plans. I take one season at a time, every day at a time.

I don't look any further than what's right in front of me.

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.

I don't take pressure. I can't really work under pressure. I do one film at a time, and I try to live in that character and in the moment. I am not a futuristic person who thinks what is going to happen after five years. And I don't live in the past.

Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.

Just to eat is a gift.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

The best gig is the one you've got.

I'm going to take each day and each thing and each gig as it comes at me.

When you're working, you're in the present, but you've always got one eye on where your next job might be coming from, and I don't think that will ever go away.

If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course.

Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours for long, and once it is gone it will never in all time be ours again. Thou only knowest what it holds in store for us, yet even we know something of what it will hold. The chance to speak the truth, to show mercy, to ease another's burden. The chance to resist evil, to remember all the good times and good people of our past, to be brave, to be strong, to be glad.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around...

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think , and to speak.