Quotes About Present

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.

At which point exactly does the past give way to the present, and does time ever intersect? Through years of occupations, this house on Rákóczi út was forced to give way to new inhabitants. Just by being here, standing here in from of this house, we are bringing them all back, through memory.

Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.

It is less important—and ultimately perhaps rather futile—to reach ethical or intellectual conclusions about the unconscious than it is to create a space of inquiry where we diligently attend to how it continues to reincarnate the past in the present.

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

Don't let the violence of your past blind you from the peace in your present. Lutti

We serve the future by protecting the present.

But I've learned that living in either the past or the future keeps me up in my head, out of reality, robbing me of the present.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ­ and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.

Cuanto más se envejece, más se siente que saber gozar del presente es un don precioso, comparable a un estado de gracia.

Make is-ness your business and meet life as it shows up—not as you prefer it to show up.

here's what making is-ness your business means: engage in your life with enthusiasm exactly as it is, regardless of your likes and dislikes, your preferences, ideas, beliefs, and opinions about how things should be or could be.

Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time...You try to walk in the light.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.