Present - Quotes
I don`t live in either my past or my future. I`m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you`ll be a happy man. [...] Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we`re living now.
If you`re always thinking about the future, then you kinda forget about the present.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
I love my past. I love my present. I`m not ashamed of what I`ve had, and I`m not sad because I have it no longer.
Don`t be afraid of your past. Learn from it so it can empower your present.
I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.
It isn`t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It`s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
We choose to live (...) rooting ourselves to a home or a career and using the future as a kind of phony ritual that justifies the present. In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) "the best part of one`s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it."
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Who controls the past, [...] controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future.
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it`s too late.
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.