Present Quotes - Page 5

He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusiona distraction

When I meet you, in that moment, I am no longer a part of your future. I start quickly becoming part of your past. But in that instant, I get to share a part of your present. And you get to share a part of mine. And that is the greatest present of all.

Sarah Kay

If a man decides that it is better for him to resist the demands of a present feeble love, in the name of another, of a future manifestation, he deceives either himself or other people, and loves no one but himself. Future love does not exist. Love is a present activity only. The man who does not manifest love in the present has not love.

Leo Tolstoy

The distance runner who accepts the past in the person he is, and sees the future as a promise rather than a threat, is completely and utterly in the present. He is absorbed in his encounter with the everyday world. He is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconsciou. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in the divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace, unique; the everyday, eternal.

George Sheehan

Infinite mercy flows continuallyBut you're asleep and can't see it.The sleeper's robe goes on drinking river waterWhile he frantically hunts mirages in dreamsAnd runs continually here and there shouting,"There'll be water further on, I know!"It's this false thinking that blocks himFrom the path that leads to himself,By always saying, "Further on!"He's become estranged from "here":Because of a false fantasyHe's driven from reality.

Jalaluddin Rumi

The present moment is the only one that matters, and what you are doing right now is as delightful as anything else.

Victor Shamas

In that moment I understand that I have the power to create the situation right here, right now. I could walk past and say nothing, I could stop and talk, I could do whatever, and create a moment. Every moment is my moment to create.

Gregg Korrol

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.

Art Buchwald

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Bertolt Brecht

But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

Audrey Niffenegger

Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.

Saul Bellow

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

Chuck Palahniuk

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.

Susan Sontag

I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, not what should be, not what ought to be, not what once was.Only the is.

Augusten Burroughs

Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge.

Margaret Atwood

To vibrate that positive feeling to manifest the thing or the situation we desire, we have to feel it in the present, as if we are already in it. When we are feeling it, we are ‘being’ who we need to be to ‘do’ the action s it would require so we can ‘have’ what we desire.

Malti Bhojwani

Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own.

Marcel Proust

I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.

Idries Shah

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there.

John Green

Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure.

Charlotte Brontë

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

Marshall McLuhan

This is what storytelling gets you. You make things up that aren't real, and then get upset when they don't turn out as expected.

Gregg Korrol

You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Count your summers, not your winters.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our skills are tested and refined. A medical professor describes the easy familiarity with which her digital-native resident students master medical electronic records—but is troubled by the fact that they enter data with their eyes focused on their digital devices, not on the patient in the room with them. Preoccupation with technology acts as a screen between the student and the patient’s real emotion, real fear, and real concern. It may also prevent these residents from noticing physical symptoms that the patient fails to mention. The easy busyness of medical record entry is a way to sidestep the more challenging dynamics of human connection. But experienced physicians know that interpersonal skills are essential to mastering the art and science of medical diagnosis.

Marian Deegan

...you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly present. Be present in this class. And then, when it's over be present out there,

John Green

Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.

Steve Goodier

It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're gifted each day.

Craig Groeschel

...my awakening life.I am awake in the present.The present is today.Today is a great gift.

Lailah Gifty Akita

That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver's stead. They were a small part of that person to keep.

Paul Magrs

When you remain present to the goal at hand, you become ready to receive a powerful gift.

Andra Brynna Goeglein

If the present is left unopened,now, it is closed.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Nothing like the gift of living in the present.

Kaleb Kilton

Maybe a holiday miracle will change Mearth’s awful behavior,” Mandy suggested with optimism.“The only holiday miracle around here is that Mearth hasn’t murdered us both yet,” said Alecto, lighting another cigarette, his hands shaking erratically. He looked exhausted and terrified, his gray eyes soulless.“Do you know what Mearth likes, Alecto?” Mandy questioned.“Vegetables, she likes celery a lot, and lettuce,” Alecto responded in a quiet monotone. “I don’t know what else she likes. I’ve never asked her.”“Well, she has to like something… doesn’t everyone?”“Not her, Mandy Valems.

Rebecca McNutt

The greatest gifts are those that say, “I know you”.

Fennel Hudson

Link says if a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it’s jewelry.

Kami Garcia

Today is a gift.Today is all I have.I be fully awake in today.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.

Mitch Albom

Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.

Jenny Valentine

- 'I just... I was thinking of Achilles. It's our anniversarý tomorrow, and I'd really like to get him a present. Maybe I could sneak out tonight and be back in time for... for Patrick's visit tomorrow.'- 'Ohh, what are you going to get him?'Hell. This was torture in itself.- 'A new hammer. One with my name engraved on the side.' - Sure. why not?She sighed happily.- 'That's a cute idea!

Emma Winters

Enjoy things for what they are, when they are, in the moment.

Akiroq Brost

If you allow yourself to experience the present moment, you will discover that it does not get better than this Paradise is here and now, waiting for you to arrive, to accept, to surrender, and to enjoy.

Victor Shamas

Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment.

Amit Ray

Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.

Amit Ray

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Louis L'Amour

I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.

Sara Sheridan

When one was full of energy and enthusiasm the world was an apple, the future was way beyond the horizon and only the present was pertinent.

Jeff Tikari

Heaven shows up all the time. But we plan our time so that we show up in other places.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

Franz Kafka

Moment is a flower. Mindfulness is sipping the nectar of that flower.

Amit Ray

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what’s called at home.

Christopher Isherwood

Utopia is a collective shift of perception away. Abundance is all around us. Only our efforts at tower-building blind us to it, our gaze forever skyward, forever seeking to escape this Earth, this feeling, this moment.

Charles Eisenstein

Make the present moment your friend rather than your enemy. Because many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment.

Dan Harris

On the off-chance you won't live forever, maybe you should try being happy now.

Janice Kaplan

Don't let your 'future success' dim the beauty and light that's in front of you right now.

Taryn Garland

The long term health effects from utility company smart meters present a far greater risk to the general population than terrorism in the USA.

Steven Magee

finding peace will help pave your path.you have to be [fully] present to experienceand understand what you need to keep going.

Alexandra Elle

I plan for all obstacles, I prepare with care, I worry endlesslyfor the road aheadIn all this, I forgetto enjoy small momentsof my present journey

Vijaya Gowrisankar

Had I not gone through my past struggles, I wouldn't be as strong as I am at present.

Gift Gugu Mona

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