Quotes About Present

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.

In this light, let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.

Music is one of the best ways to enjoy the present. It's not that much fun to look forward to hearing music or to remember what a song sounded like last week, but music right now absorbs us and places us directly in the moment.

Flawed past is history; flawed present is opportunity.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

...human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.

May sleep envelop you as a bed sheet floating gently down, tickling your skin and removing every worry. Reminding you to consider only this moment.

Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after

Today will never come again. Grace Yoakum

This is our country, and this is our past, and we are the present, and these young people are the future.

Live before you die.

That's the way it is: life includes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

But I have not brought history with me this evening (history is a thin garment, easily punctured by a knife blade called Now). I have brought my fear.

Fear needs a future," Evan said. "Let's focus on the present.

Are we living in the moment or are we living for the moment?

if the past and the future are present in this moment, can we communicate with them?

History, as Kennan had observed, was "the common refuge of those who find themselves helpless in the face of the present."17

I'm not spacing out. I'm just living in the moment.

Live in the moment, just do it - those are phrases thrown around by people who don't know what they mean. Just do it - it's idiotic. You could slap that slogan on a picture of Hitler and it would make as much sense. He did it, all right.

Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle

When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future".

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.