Quotes About Present

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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Where are you? Here What time is it? Now What are you? This moment.

Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.

Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge

It's more satisfying to be useful now than to be remembered later.

I don't want to miss all of God's little surprises because I'm tied in knots over something I can't change.

I hate the idea of "resolutions." When we make a resolution, we try to plan out the next month or the next year. It's a total trap. We can't control what's going to happen down the road; pledging to go to the gym four days a week or to never eat chocolate cake for a year is just a recipe for failure. So forget the future; just make the next healthy choice for yourself right now.

High-purpose environments are filled with small, vivid signals designed to create a link between the present moment and a future ideal. They provide the two simple locators that every navigation process requires: Here is where we are and Here is where we want to

High-purpose environments are filled with small, vivid signals designed to create a link between the present moment and a future ideal.

High-purpose environments are filled with small, vivid signals designed to create a link between the present moment and a future ideal. They provide the two simple locators that every navigation process requires: Here is where we are and Here is where we want to go. The surprising thing, from a scientific point of view, is how responsive we are to this pattern of signaling.

Cautious Brain Types often look to the future with trepidation, but when you are wrapped up in the future, it means you are missing out on the present and live with a baseline level of anxiety, which creates misery.

Part of living in the present means not worrying about the future, which will kill your happiness every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Worrying may be second nature to many, but most of us are not aware of how much we dwell on fearful thoughts. Research shows that happy people worry far less often than unhappy people do.

A permanent present—what a haunting phrase.

The key to happiness, fulfilment and enlightenment, the ex-professor argued, was to stop thinking so much about the future.

The key to happiness, fulfillment, and enlightenment, the ex-professor argued, was to stop thinking so much about the future.

We cannot feel good about an imaginary future when we are busy feeling bad about an actual present.

but of all the things you might do in your final ten minutes, it's a pretty safe bet that few of them are things you actually did today.

Just as an abacus can put two and two together to produce four without having thoughts about arithmetic, so brains can add past to present to make future without ever thinking about any of them.

Imagination cannot easily transcend the boundaries of the present, and one reason for this is that it must borrow machinery that is owned by perception. The fact that these two processes must run on the same platform means that we are sometimes confused about which one is running. We assume that what we feel as we imagine the future is what we'll feel when we get there, but in fact, what we feel as we imagine the future is often a response to what's happening in the present.

Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory.

The mind that leaps is the mind that lives.