Quotes About Awareness

The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

Every second is of infinite value.

Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment.

The span of life is waning fast; Beware, unthinking youth, beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the thousand small, uncaring ways.

God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. ... He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone-its value is incontestable.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.

It is privilege of living to be ... acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.