Present Quotes

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

~ Alan W. Watts

I wonder if I talk like a dead man. My daughter once came home from school very excited about some lecture -this was years ago, before I died, though just right before- and she said her English teacher had talked about what the dead sound like in Dante. This funny thing about Dante's dead, which is that they know the past, and even the future, but they don't know the present. About the present they have all these questions for Dante. And that somehow is what being alive is, to be suspended in the time. She seemed to feel that really meant something. That and also that the dead know themselves better than the living do.

~ Rivka Galchen

There is no past and future for those who exist in the now. Live in the moment, today is the only reality.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

And truths, these days, are spokenThe same way promises are made,With gritted teeth and crossed fingers.

~ Sanhita Baruah

What is important is to understand the true boundaries of reality, not the probable boundaries of possible future events. Although boundary conditions operate on the future, they are probabilistic constraints, not absolutely determined fact. We assume that ten minutes hence, the room we are in will still exist. It is a boundary condition that will define the next ten minutes in our space/time coordinate. But we cannot know who will be in the room ten minutes hence; that is free to be determined. One may ask if we can really know that the room will exist at any future moment. This is where induction enters the picture, since in truth we cannot know with certainty. There is no absolutely rigorous way of establishing that. But we can make the inductive leap of faith that has to do with accumulated experience. We project that the existence of the room will remain a boundary condition, but in principle in the next ten minutes there could be an earthquake and this building might not be left standing. However, for that to happen, the boundary condition will have to be radically disrupted in some unexpected and improbable manner. What is so curious is that such a thing could occur.

~ Terence Mckenna

He lived decades ago,she lives at the moment.A very saddening reality for her.

~ S G

Even if you time travel your past, it can't be changed, likewise you can't possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.

~ Pushpa Rana

Positive thinkers create large pictures of what they want in their minds and can predict the future from the present.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt.

~ Truth Devour

A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me—but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I give myself permissionto enjoy the present moment.

~ Human Angels

Stairs are your teacher; they teach you to be stronger. Love your teacher and every time life puts some stairs before you, accept them as a present!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.

~ Amit Kalantri

Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –

~ Simona Panova

The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to change. Much of what was repulsive 100 years ago is normal today, and - although it may be a slippery slope - what is repulsive today is possible to be normal 100 years into tomorrow; the human standard has always been but to push the envelope. In this way, all generations are linked, and one can only hope that every extremist, self-proclaimed progressive is considering this ultimate 'Utopia' to which his kindness will lead at the end of the chain.

~ Criss Jami

As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues in society today.

~ Sara Sheridan

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

~ Sara Sheridan

How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?

~ Joyce Rachelle

Emptiness and the not-“I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth in the moment.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

YOU HAVE TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE WEAKAllow yourself to feel whatever you are feeling. Notice any labels you attach to crying or feeling vulnerable. Let go of the labels. Just feel what you are feeling, all the while cultivating moment-to-moment awareness, riding the waves of “up” and “down,” “good” and “bad,” “weak” and “strong,” until you see that they are all inadequate to fully describe your experience. Be with the experience itself. Trust in your deepest strength of all: to be present, to be wakeful.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

I cannot place the luxury of thought towards tomorrow as I am consumed by living for today.

~ Truth Devour

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.

~ Clarice Lispector

When Mathematics unfold through Origamis, when video games target Medicine and Education, when architecture embraces nature, when we defy gravity, when physics dance, and dance clubs play Einstein, when we stop playing war, when TV starts saying something, when we produce without wasting, when engineering meets humanity’s primary needs, when all of these are not just casualties, but a standard we all live UP to: Then we’ll know. I’ll know: we really live in the 21st century

~ Natasha Tsakos

Don't grieve over the past, It's all gone!Don't worry about the future, It may never come! Live in the present, And enjoy every moment

~ Mouloud Benzadi

Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Every time we choose our past over our present, we kill our future.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Don’t waste your time dying over the past, spend it living in the present.

~ Saim Cheeda

Procrastination is a way of living in the past instead of the present moment.

~ Debasish Mridha

If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list.

~ Anthony Liccione

If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?

~ Kathryn Davis

Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

It never occurred to me before, but I always thought of time like it was a road, or an empty plane. I could see it and mark it and claim it as mine, but the reason I couldn't travel my own speed was because I was waiting on the present to catch up, I had to wait to get to my destination. But really, there is no road, or flat plane or anything... there's just this very dangerous edge... cliff that we're dangling off of, there isn't a future really, I mean sure we can plan and prepare, but tomorrow may not come.I'm not saying base your life on that- if tomorrow does come, what you do today will influence it! But anything can push you off that cliff. So start living.

~ Melanie Kay Taylor

It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Learn to appreciate the things you have in the life you're living. It is your present.

~ Adem Spahic

Paraphrasing Yeats: It was as the Irish poet had written, a waste of breath, the years that had gone past, the years to come. There was only the present moment to live and die in. [ref. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death ...The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death. W.B. Yeats

~ Tan Twan Eng

The better you become as each day goes by, the more you heap dust upon you past until you completely bury it. No matter how obnoxious it was

~ Constance Chuks Friday

By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

We can help the next generation, with the stories we write today.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My happiness with the future and the present depends on my ability to let the past go and make peace with it.

~ A.j. Darkholme