Quotes About Present

In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

You can't recapture your past anymore than you can speed up your future. Stop lamenting summer and stop trying to hurry winter. Just enjoy the fall.

Living in the present moment means accepting your experience, moment by moment, without judgment, which takes both practice and positive intention.

You can only do things one day at a time, sport. Sometimes life is so bloody that's the only way you can get through it. But the good bit about living one day at a time is that when nice things happen, you enjoy them more than people who are always thinking about the past or the future.

to the great Spirit and Fountain of life, all things, in both space and time, must be present Ã¢â'¬Â¦ action, once begun, never ceases Ã¢â'¬Â¦ thus the past is always present, although, for the purpose of fitting us for this mortal life, our ordinary senses are so constituted as to be unperceptive of these phenomena. —CATHERINE CROWE, FROM THE NIGHT-SIDE OF NATURE

As horrific as the Holocaust was, it is firmly in the past. When I write about it, I am writing about what was. Though I remain horrified by what happened, it is history. Contemporary antisemitism is not. It is about the present. It is what many people are doing, saying, and facing now.

To learn from the past, understand the present, and change the future," David said.

I confess that I am often lost in all the dimensions of time, that the past sometimes feels nearer than the present and I often fear the future has already happened.

When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.

Witness the choices you make in every moment. The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.

When you struggle against this moment, you're actually struggling against the entire universe.

How can you put the Law of Least Effort into action? There are three things you can do. The first thing is to accept people, situations, and events as they are, not as you wish they were, in this moment. This moment is as it should be, because it took the entire universe to make this moment.

Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. It's not about sitting back and waiting for things to happen. It's a mindful trust and complete collaboration with what is present here and now.

enjoying every moment in the journey of your life, even if you don't know the outcome.

You can intend for things to be different in the future, but in this moment, accept things as they are.

The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.

We all owe emotional debts to the past, in the form of feelings we couldn't allow ourselves to express. The past isn't over as long as these debts go unpaid. You don't have to return to the person who made you angry or afraid, with the intention of revising how the past turned out. For that person, the impact can never be the same as it is for you. The purpose of getting rid of emotional debt is to find your place in the present.

Inside stillness lies a treasure. It can be opened using nothing more than silent awareness - the gaze of the soul. If you wish to open your soul's treasure, regard the present moment as a uniquely precious thing - the still point around which the world revolves.

Past, present and future are illusions, or to put it another way, to separate past, present, and future is an illusion.... The present is the opening in time...

Si quieres saber cómo pensabas antes, mira tu cuerpo ahora. Si quieres saber cómo será tu cuerpo en el futuro, examina lo que piensas hoy».