Quotes About Present

The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.

Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.

Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.

No matter how difficult your situation is, you can get through it if you don't look too far into the future, and focus on the present moment. You can get through anything one day at a time.

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

I don't think in the past. I don't think in the future. You grasp the moment.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first.

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.