Quotes About Present

Though it's hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She's too immersed in the present:

Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who don't have time, by those who truly understand the word helpless. They dispense with the calculation of risk and profit, they take no thought for the future, they're forced at spearpoint into the present tense. Thrown over a precipice, you fall or else you fly; you clutch at any hope, however unlikely; however - if I may use such an overworked word - miraculous. What we mean by that is, Against all odds.

I will stop living life for a future happiness that does not and may never exist. I will live for now and stop wasting my time. Ever moment I live can be as beautiful as a fantasy. Every second of life is precious. I vow to stop wasting my time on these dreams that turn my life into a nightmare. I vow to live, to be mindful, to pay attention to life and hold it hard to my heart. Every beat another second going by.

Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.

It's the oldest story in the world. One day you're 17 planning for someday and then quietly, without you ever noticing, someday today. And then someday yesterday. And this is your life.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.

Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.

Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much less care; but try to obtain what you need, and make the best of every moment of your life.

Reflect upon your present blessings

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you'll always be happy, because it's always in the now

I move with the time. Whatever's happening in time, I'm in.

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

The right time is always right now.

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.

I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.