Quotes About Present

do not dwell any more on things in the past that you cannot change.

To be without history is to be trapped in a present where oppressive social relations appear natural and inevitable

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

I was starting to grasp the mysteries of the city in which we had been moving for many hours now. It was as if I sensed its hidden spaces, its secret lives, the windows where people's silhouettes passed for a moment and disappeared forever. I glimpsed, in the broken lines of those streets, the hidden code of my present life and above all my future one.

Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.

Relinquish the notion of lost opportunity and try on a new reality: "Where I am is where I'm supposed to be.

No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.

You need nothing more than the experience you are having right now. It is enough. It is plenty. It is perfect just as it is. It was designed for you, given to you for your experience. All you have to do, and all you have ever had to do is accept this gift. Take it and let it in. Let yourself experience the present moment just as it is. It doesn't get any better than this. This is the simple truth the ego refuses to accept, and it will suffer as long as that is the case.

The only thing that exists is the present moment, the Now, but we, as human beings, have a particular relationship with our thoughts that takes us out of the experience of the moment.

with our thoughts—any thought—we lose touch with the peace and contentment of the Now.

The antidote to the stress and suffering caused by the egoic mind is letting everything be as it is.

But the hero lets the future take care of itself, because he knows the future never actually arrives. In reality, all there ever is, is one moment moving naturally and gracefully into the next, with or without the mind's ceaseless thoughts.

We were never meant to be anything other than the way we are right now. True perfection is life just as it is.

your attention to what is here, not to what isn't.

really involved in whatever you are doing. Experience it fully with all of your senses. Be in the experience of the present moment and not lost in your thoughts.

What happened in the past was what it was, and no amount of speculation can change that. This rumination about reality is just the mind's way of not accepting a former now and its way of taking you out of the current now.

Il presente a volte può essere un pessimo ambiente se arredato con i residui di un passato difficile da dimenticare.

The only way to deal with the future is to function efficiently in the Now.

More reliably than anything else on earth, the road will force you to live in the present.

He took comfort in not knowing about the future.

we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But

L'héritage qui t'est venu de ton ancêtre, Il te faut l'acquérir pour le mieux posséder. Conserver sans besoin, c'est se donner un maître Et rien, hors du présent, ne peut nous profiter.

The likeness of a man is quite independent; everywhere that it stands, it stands for itself, and we do not require it to mark the site of a particular grave. But I must acknowledge to you to having a strange feeling; even to likenesses I have a kind of disinclination. Whenever I see them they seem to be silently reproaching me. They point to something far away from us,—gone from us; and they remind me how difficult it is to pay right honor to the present.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?