Quotes About Present

Their "present bias" overrides logic, and they allow a big future with potentially extraordinary results to get away Now imagine the devastating impact living this way every day could have on your future self.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

The truth about success is that our ability to achieve extraordinary results in the future lies in stringing together powerful moments, one after the other. What you do in any given moment determines what you experience in the next. Your "present now" and all "future nows" are undeniably determined by the priority you live in the moment. The deciding factor in determining how you set that priority is who wins the battle between your present and future selves.

When time stops, life starts.

Learn from the past. Prepare for the future. Perform in the present.

Fear lives in the future. These athletes live in the present—the here and now. Their participation is fun and rewarding.

When you are under stress, deep breathing helps bring your mind and body back into the present.

Our sense of a composition largely inheres in how we feel about the individual parts; narrative arcs are almost always essential in drama but (unless there are lyrics involved) often less essential in music. All of this is, I suspect, again symptomatic of human memory limitations. We live, to a remarkable degree, in the present; what happened thirty seconds ago is already rapidly fading from our memory (or at least rapidly becomes harder for us to retrieve).

Do not lose power over the what-ifs of your life. These are unlimited and endless. Keep your power in the now, in present time. Keep your power just in the day that you are living on the Earth, and not on how to maneuver tomorrow.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

I'm here to build the future, he said & she looked up & said How about we start you on the present then? & he was fine with that as long as there was a chance to move up & years later, he finally understood why she smiled & let him jump right in. —Begin Here

The trouble with "now" is that no matter how much you wish it would, it doesn't last forever. But then... other than a grudge...what does?

Writing of Pushkin, Nabokov once observed quite accurately that his subject was the threefold formula of human life: the irretrievability of the past, the insatiability of the present, and the unforeseeability of the future.

Start today like you're dying, because of course you are.

Life is fleeting, constantly spiralling into the past. And all we're ever able to hold on to is the precious present.

Living is something most of us postpone, isn't it? We sell the present for a chance at a future where we may do our living when we're old and we've lost the talent for it.

But, as Einstein once said, "For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent."5

The past is finished. Learn from it and let it go. The future is not even here yet. Plan for it, but do not waste your time worrying about it. Worrying is worthless. When you stop ruminating about what has already happened, when you stop worrying about what might never happen, then you will be in the present moment. Then you will begin to experience joy in life. We

Instantly I comprehended the truth of these thoughts. Reality is the present. Dwelling in the past or future causes pain and illness. Patience can stop time. God's love is everything.

Con el amor y la comprensión llega la perspectiva de la paciencia infinita. ¿De qué sirve tener prisa? De todas maneras, aunque tú no lo veas así, el tiempo no existe. Cuando no vives en el presente y te dejas absorber por el pasado o te preocupas por el futuro, te apenas y te afliges a ti mismo. El tiempo también es una ilusión. Incluso en el mundo tridimensional, el futuro es sólo un sistema de probabilidades. Entonces, ¿por qué te preocupas?

Los hechos de una vida previa encauzan la vida presente. Tolstói

Live in the present, not the past or the future. The past is over; learn from it and let it go. The future is not yet here. Plan for it, but do not worry. Worry only wastes your time and energy.

Todo es amor... todo es amor. Con el amor llega la comprensión. Con la comprensión llega la paciencia. Y entonces el tiempo se detiene. Y todo es ahora.» Comprendí al instante la autenticidad de estos pensamientos. La realidad es el presente. Morar en el pasado o en el futuro es insano y doloroso. La paciencia detiene el tiempo. El amor de Dios lo es todo.