Present Quotes

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

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

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

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

~ Amit Ray

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

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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

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

~ Louis L'amour

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

~ Amit Ray

Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment.

~ Amit Ray

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

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

~ Akiroq Brost

- '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

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

~ Jenny Valentine

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

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

~ Fennel Hudson

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

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

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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

~ Andra Brynna Goeglein

...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

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

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

~ Steve Goodier

...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

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

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

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

~ Marshall Mcluhan

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

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

~ John Green

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

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

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

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

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

~ Art Buchwald

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