Quotes About Present

We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now.

I think pleasure is in the moment more than in the thing.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It's a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

This is all happening in the future. This future, this instant. If you can't absorb this idea, best go home now." I

Murray said, "I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It's a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

there is no need to justify what we are. there is no need to work hard to become what we are not. we just need to return to our intergrity, to the way we were before we learned to speak. perfect. as little children, we are authentic. only the present time is real for us; wo don't care about the past, and we aren't worried about the future. we enjoy life; we want to explore and have fun. nobody teaches us to be that way; we are born that way.

Nikada ne možete biti ono što niste. Možete biti samo ono što jeste i to je sve. A upravo ste ovoga trenutka ono što jeste i to bez ikakva napora.

We can see what is in front of us, but not what is behind, just as we can remember what happened in the past, but we can't remember the future. Not only that, but we can remember recent events much more clearly than long past events, captured neatly by the visual metaphor in which the past lines up before us, the most recent events being closest so that they clearly perceived (remembered), with long/past events far in the distance, remembered and perceived with difficulty.

The present goal of the individual in group enterprises is to avoid dominance; leadership is felt to be a character disorder.

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day, when the sun goes down and the supper is to be cooked. -from The Educational Experience

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present.

how strange to find that the present contained such a bright shard of the living past, damaged and eroded but not destroyed.

Somehow the present had shrunk into a smaller and much less interesting place.

or rather, how strange to find that the present contained such a bright shard of the living past, damaged and eroded but not destroyed.

not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

And besides (I told myself) wasn't it time to Move Forward, Let Go, turn from the garden that was locked to me? Live In The Present, Focus On The Now instead of grieving for what I could never have?

You can't let the uncertainty of tomorrow interfere with the joy of today,

Dogs live in the moment. They don't think. They don't dwell on the future. They exist to meet their base needs. Eating. Sleeping. Breeding. Surviving. No worries. No regrets. Minimize effort, maximize pleasure.

Dim or indistinct views of sin are the origin of most of the errors, heresies and false doctrines of the present day. If

We live in an age of peculiar spiritual danger. Never perhaps since the world began was there such an immense amount of mere outward profession of religion as there is in the present day.

Quero fruir o presente e considerar o passado como o passado. Você tem razão: os homens sofreriam menos se não se aplicassem tanto (e Deus sabe por que eles são assim!)a invocar os males indos e vividos, em vez de esforçar-se por tornar suportável um presente medíocre.

The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom.

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow. Robert Kiyosaki

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson