Quotes About Present

The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan [save and retire after 20–40 years] and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.

patterns, it's easy for me to lose focus, to succumb to distraction. The question that helps me return to the present is, simply, "Is what I am doing right now aligned with my life's calling?

There is no way to happiness—happiness is the way." –THICH NHAT HANH Vietnamese Buddhist monk and Nobel

The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.

Gold is getting old. The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.

My two cents: Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It's the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It's the quality of, yes, your next email. Forget the long term. Make the next five minutes rock!

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present." —Lao Tzu

What Does It Feel Like? "If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present." —Lao Tzu

As soon as I stopped fixating on the destination—where I wanted to hit the ball—and instead focused on what was in front of me—the point of impact—everything began to work.

Most see excellence as some grand aspiration. Wrong. Dead wrong. My two cents: Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It's the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It's the quality of, yes, your next email. Forget the long term. Make the next five minutes rock!

Qué coste tiene cada uno de ellos para ti y para la gente que te importa en el momento presente? Míralo, óyelo, siéntelo.

There is no way to happiness—happiness is the way." –THICH NHAT HANH

If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? "You are good enough, just as you are. Breathe, and relax into the moment.

What do you need right now in order to be happy? Do you need anything other than what is happening right now in order to be happy?" That orients me right away toward what I care about.

In short, we are called to help each other see the unseen reality of our active, present, and personal God.

When we lack a sense of past and future, the present feels like a shaky platform, an uncertain basis for action.

If past and future contained nothing but struggle and scarcity, all attention fell upon the present. A psychic resolve for relief from a sense of crisis overwhelmed the practical resolve to think about the future. Rather

If we have no control over who reads what and when, we have no ability to act in the present or plan for the future. Whoever

Eternity politicians bring us the past as a vast misty courtyard of illegible monuments to national victimhood, all of them equally distant from the present, all of them equally accessible for manipulation.

Affascinato, come sono sempre stato, dalla ricca certezza del passato, e confuso dall'incertezza del futuro con le sue troppe possibilità, avevo preso il presente solo come materiale di cui godere una volta che fosse diventato passato. E così, il presente m'era sempre sfuggito.

Il passato è un'indispensabile guida per chi vuol visitare il presente o immaginarsi il futuro. In tutti i miei viaggi mi porto sempre dietro i libri di qualcuno che ha percorso quella strada prima di me. Non solo mi fanno compagnia, ma me ne servo come termine di paragone, come misura di quello che vedo.

Il passato è un'indispensabile guida per chi vuol visitare il presente o immaginarsi il futuro.

Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.

All things have the appearance of solidity, but it's an illusion, a trick of perception drawn from our eternal entrapment in the present. Only memory reveals truth, yet even memory is but an eddy in your mind.