Quotes About Present

future happiness cannot compensate for current misery; lost happiness is lost forever. Powered

In general, you should not give up too much happiness for too long (clinging to the mistaken belief that you will be able to recoup the loss at some point later on in life). Don't put off until tomorrow happiness that can be experienced today.

My ability to keep weight training—my "stickability"—is simply sticking with an activity that brings happiness in the current moment, rather than in the future. It's the pleasure-purpose feedback you get while you are engaged in an activity that matters most.

Since thou and those who died with thee for rightHave died, the Present teaches, but in vain!

Each of us is precisely where it has always been known we would be, doing exactly what we are doing right now.

I began to fear that constant hoping might cause me to sacrifice today for the illusion of a better tomorrow." - The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need

The past is the past. It's the present we should worry about.

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

Mindfulness is awareness without judgment. As mindfulness researcher Jon Kabat-Zinn notes, mindfulness is "the ability to be aware of your thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and actions—in the present moment—without judging or criticizing yourself or your experience" (2005).

When you no longer worry about the future, and no longer have regrets about the past, you exist purely in the moment. If you concentrate on that moment you instinctively know, that as long as you have life you have hope. Enjoy the moment. Breathe easily. Relax.

The fresh, pointed stab of living in the moment that shame can bring. Everything else fades away, no more boredom, no more doubt, no more worrying about the future, the past...just a drenching in self pity and the now. In that moment, everything was about me and my wrongness. It's sort of a baptism, when the floodgates of regret let loose.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

What's more important to understand is that in our endless questing, we never stumble on a beautiful secret: that God's time—kairos time—is always present and available to us, even in the daily dawnings and dyings of the circadian cycle. At any instant, if only we are aware enough to catch it, we can enter a suspended moment that contains within it layer upon layer of history, the multiple petals of the present, and the swirling mists of the future to come.

There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's worth at least, all the usual vices and plenty of rope to hang yourself with. Love is a beautiful liar.

There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? —ERNEST HEMINGWAY, For Whom the Bell Tolls

as if whatever life she's had before now doesn't take up space or trouble her in the least.

We don't have time to catch up with the future that is here.

Past is a place of reference not a place of residence.

To live as a child in a world without time – not in infinity, but in eternity, what a joy. To never count your minutes. To just be – in the eternal present. What bliss.

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, its Eternity. In India, they use the word karma, for lack of any better term. It isnt what you did in the past that will affect the present. Its what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

To this end, the invaders are making increasing use of the social sciences and technology, and to some extent the physical sciences as well, to improve and refine their action. It is indispensable for the invaders to know the past and present of those invaded in order to discern the alternatives of the latter's future and thereby attempt to guide the evolution of that future along lines that will favor their own interests.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

I wish we could live in this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever

This minute is passing. And it will never come again. Never in all the world. When it is gone, it is gone. No power on earth could bring it back again. - Carson McCullers