Quotes About Present

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now...

The more anger you hold in your heart towards the past, the less capable you are of loving the present.

You're not really living if you have to pretend to be happy. So kiss slowly, love deeply, and don't let your past rob you of your future.

Remember the past, Love the present, look toward the future, never forget, always forgive, don't regret decisions, live every day as if its your last.

Live for today, love for tomorrow, and laugh at all your yesterdays. Never regret the past, always hope for the future, and cherish every moment you have.

The present is all you own. Live, love, enjoy, wish and accomplish. Place no faith in time, the clock may soon be still.

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.

There is so little joy for the here and now in the uncertainties of the whens and thens.

now is the future that you promised yourself last year, last month, last week. Now is the only moment you'll ever really have. Mindfulness is about waking up to this.

There is no need to compare your life (or standard of living) with either a fictitious life in the future or some rose-tinted view of the past. You

Doing mode is not an enemy to be defeated, but is often an ally. Doing mode only becomes a "problem" when it volunteers for a task that it cannot do, such as "solving" a troubling emotion. When this happens, it pays to "shift gear" into "Being" mode. This is what mindfulness gives us: the ability to shift gears as we need to, rather than being permanently stuck in the same one.

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

One recurring theme was to "reflect upon life, to find happiness and meaning now," not next month or next year.

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

This is life, I suppose. You stick to the moment you're in whether it's good or bad. Next

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

Sometimes the long view is not what I need. I need this moment, without hostage to past or future, experienced for itself alone.

This is the only day I have for sure. May I use it well.

The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past.

The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now—or, as Buber puts it, in the present.