Quotes About Time

If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

What is happening in the present moment is life.

If we continue to hold on to a dream for something in the future, we lose the present moment. And if we lose the present, we lose everything.

May we find ways to live more simply in order to have more time and energy to change the system of injustice that exists in the world.

We have millions of ways to lose this precious time—we turn on the TV, or pick up the telephone, or start the car and go somewhere. We are not used to being with ourselves, and we act as if we don't like ourselves and are trying to escape from ourselves. Meditation

Time has much more value than money. Time is life. Money is nothing compared with life. In two hours of drinking tea together, we don't get money, but we do get life.

Don't agonize over the past, because the past is gone. Don't worry about the future, because the future is not yet here.

Feeling the heat of anger right now, I close my eyes and look into the future. Three hundred years from now, where will you, where will I, be?

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

As the Buddha said, "The past no longer is, the future is not yet here; there is only one moment in which life is available, and that is the present moment." To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.

The only moment to be alive is in the present moment.

We disregard the wonders of the present moment, thinking that heaven and the ultimate are for later, not for now.

We tend to postpone being alive to the future, the distant future, we don't know when. It's as if now is not the moment to be alive. We may never be alive at all in our entire life.

the present moment contains both past and future. The only material that the future is made of is the present. If you know how to handle the present in the best way you can, that's all you can do for the future. Handling the present moment with all your attention, all your intelligence, is already building a future.

The future is being made out of the present, so the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. This is logical and clear. Spending a lot of time speculating and worrying about the future is totally useless. We can only take care of our future by taking care of the present moment, because the future is made out of only one substance: the present. Only if you are anchored in the present can you prepare well for the future. Although

The past no longer exists, and the future is not here yet.

So the place where you should look for the kingdom of God or the Pure Land of the Buddha, the place where you should look for your happiness, your peace, and your fulfillment, has to be in the present moment. It's so simple and clear. But since we have the tendency to slide back into the past or to run into the future, we have to recognize that habit and learn how to be free from it to really establish ourselves in the present moment. When

Buddha said, "The past no longer is, the future is not yet here; there is only one moment in which life is available, and that is the present moment." To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.

Each morning when we wake up to life we see that we have a gift of twenty-four brand new hours. If

We have the impression that our family, place of work, and society rob us of all our time.

Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.