Quotes About Present

The yogis say you can never step into the same river twice, because the current is always shifting and changing. You've never stepped into this exact river before today. Not with this body, not with today's particular energy, with the specific number of bites of breakfast in your belly, with the earth tipped on its axis. Perhaps up until now you haven't had a breakthrough in this pose, but that was then. What's possible today?

My present state is so happy that I can only look back with wonder at my hesitation to enter upon it.

Even though the story takes place in the past, it feels very much like the present or the near future. It feels like something incipient, imminent, pervasive. Like a fog so cold it's a thousand needles in your skin, just barely breaking the surface.

Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere.

If you're going to be in a traffic jam, at least enjoy the flavor. Make some toast.

We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them. (vs. it being like a love letter sent to us from afar).

Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the next thing happened.

Desire of pleasure binds us to the present.

Against all our historically-minded culture (out of compassion for our present state), the only excitement is to be found in anticipation (out of impertinence towards our future state).

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason.

Live life as though you might die tomorrow. Do what you would like to be doing, and do your best each day.

You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.

I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

If you concentrate on the rear mirror, you'll crash and cause an accident.

I never look in the rearview mirror.

I was brought up to appreciate the here and now, and, knowing this is your only life, to view death as an inevitable and reassuring end.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

I absolutely adore Agatha Christie; so much so that when I received a kitten for my Christmas present, I called her Agatha, and I already have a cat called Hercule!

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.

I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.

I'm not reclusive. I'm out and about.