1,208 Quotes About Present

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

For all my life I was waiting for you. You're my present, you're my bundle of joy and you're my ultimate purpose in life.

It’s as if Mindfulness stretches our bandwidth to includeother people in our thoughts, even when we’re busy, andreminds us again and again not to just think of ourselves.

Being in the present with total awareness allows us to observe it so that we can watch its unfolding as if we were watching the sun rise or set. We don’t tell the sun how to do what it knows to do so brilliantly, we simply watch, and we experience what we’re seeing with acceptance

When we’re present our senses are heightened, and we can enjoy so much more of what we’re seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling.

There are people who live half in the present, and halfin the future, and what ends up happening is that they’resplit in their commitment to the present.

Who am I? I am who I say I am and tomorrow someone else entirely. You are too nostalgic, you want memory to secure you, console you. The past is a bore. What matters is only oneself and what one creates from what one has learned. Imagination uses what it needs and discards the rest— where you want to erect a museum. Don't hoard the past, Astrid. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.