Quotes About Present

There is a foundation for our lives, a place in which our life rests. That place is nothing but the present moment, as we see, hear, experience what is. If we do not return to that place, we live our lives out of our heads. We blame others; we complain; we feel sorry for ourselves. All of these symptoms show that we're stuck in our thoughts. We're out of touch with the open space that is always right here.

My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life.

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

The only sure path is to live consciously, moment to moment, as you let go of the outcome.

The task for staying unstuck is to stay unattached to the outcome and not look back with regret.

All we can do is step from one moment to the next, make our best decision with what we know, and breathe.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

Day does not forestall nightmares - Night is not needed for dreams - There is no better time than here - No better place than now -

It doesn't matter what did or did not happen then. It only matters what happens NOW.

All of life's conflicts are between letting go or holding on, opening into the present or clinging to the past, expansion or contraction.

Nothing is wrong with and never was

Rather than going from where we are to where we want to be, we need to remember to be where we are, here, now. We don 't need to go anywhere else or do anything else. We don't need to go from here to there; we need to return from there to here.

No permitas que la preocupación por lo que vendrá mañana te robe la dicha de hoy. Quizás el presente sea muestro único tesoro.

It was my life - like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and scared. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

It was all unknown to me then...everything except the fact that I didn't have to know. That it was enough to trust that what I'd done was true....It was my life--like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

There is no such thing as the future until it is the present.

The past and present wilt — I have filled them, emptied them, And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.

We shall not wait for tomorrow. The future is always beginning now...

The flowers of the past are dead — but their wilted beauty and potpourri aroma enrich the present with memories.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Fatherhood is pretending that the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!