Quotes About Present

I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

O Man! Be ever prepared. Live this moment as though it is your last moment on this earth and acquire the maximum spiritual wealth here and now.

Reality can wait.

How curious it was to find that apparently nothing was ever really forgotten, that the past was never really gone, that it was always lurking, ready to destroy the present, or at least to make the present seem absurd.

As Buddha said, "What you are is what you have been, what you will be is what you do now." Padmasambhava went further: "If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

Ce que vous êtes est ce que vous avez été », disait le Bouddha ; « ce que vous serez est ce que vous faites maintenant

The past is the past, the future not yet risen, and even the present thought, as we experience it, becomes the past. The only thing we really have is nowness, is now.

La naissance d'un homme est la naissance de sa douleur. Plus il vit longtemps et plus il devient stupide, parce que son angoisse d'éviter une mort inévitable s'intensifie sans relâche. Quelle amertume ! Il vit pour ce qui est toujours hors de portée ! Sa soif de survie dans le futur le rend incapable de vivre dans le présent.

The only thing we really have is nowness, is now.

In one study, researchers used an iPhone app to check in on people at random points throughout the day and found that the more people were thinking about something other than what they were doing, the less happy they felt. Even when they weren't thinking about anything particularly bad.

nostalgic people yearn for the past for a good reason---because they missed it, they weren't fully there when they should have been, when it was the present.

All that is and shall be,And all the past, is his [Zeus's].

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

We're only here briefly. And while I'm here, I want to allow myself joy. So fuck it.

Is it because with the future unknown, the present traumatic, that we find the past so secure?

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

But joy is never tomorrow; it is always now.

Sadhyojata means "creating every moment anew, knowing every moment new.' We are used to a certain dimension, so this may go beyond you.

This Truth has to be realized here and now, in this lifetime. Do not postpone it until the next lifetime. If you do not know it this lifetime, it is the greatest loss. There cannot be any greater loss than this. This is the greatest loss imaginable.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.