Quotes About Present

I am a professional and when I go out there with the badge on, that's all I'm thinking about. Everything else is in the past. Tottenham is what it is for me now.

I am grateful, you know. I have to be grateful in the sense that I feel that what I have is a gift.

I try not to get too ahead of myself. I try to be happy where I am.

If you try to hold on to something you don't have anymore, you can't be happy in the moment.

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

You have to live in the moment and do the best that you can and be true to that moment.

I try to live every day as present' as I can, see the good in it, see the good in people, see the good in my career and always wanting to be true to myself.

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

One of the beautiful things about men is that they're very in the moment. That's why they don't want to have an argument about what happened six months ago.

I don't think about tomorrow because I want to enjoy today and practice being the best me today.

Art can contextualise and buttress fame. So rather than being antagonistic in the way Fugazi would have had it in 1989, particularly in the present, maybe they are one - they belong to one another.

The habit of ignoring our present moments in favor of others yet to come leads directly to a pervasive lack of awareness of the web of life in which we are embedded.

But meditation is different. From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

No matter what people are doing, they are much less happy when their minds are wandering than when their minds are focused

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness reminds us that it is possible to shift from a doing mode to a being mode through the application of attention and awareness.

Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it.

But, meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel. It's not about making the mind empty or still

paying attention on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally.

Here is Eliot, again from "Burnt Norton": Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Remember when you see the stars that you are looking back in time millions of years. The past is present now and here.

Inner peace exists outside of time.

We will need to become more aware of and take precautions against the incredible pull of the Scylla and Charybdis of past and future, and the dreamworld they offer us in place of our lives.

Focusing on the breath does not mean you should think about your breathing!