Live In The Present Quotes - Page 6

• Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Mistake, Mean

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• To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Mean, Past, Choices

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• God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  God, Letting Go, Dream

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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• Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

  Sivananda

  Giving Up, Yoga, Future

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I call balancing.

  M. Scott Peck

  Eye, Responsibility, Discipline

  "The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth".

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• What we are talking about is learning to live in the present moment, in the now. When you aren't distracted by your own negative thinking, when you don't allow yourself to get lost in moments that are gone or yet to come, you are left with this moment. This moment-now-truly is the only moment you have. It is beautiful and special. Life is simply a series of such moments to be experienced one right after another. If you attend to the moment you are in and stay connected to your soul and remain happy, you will find that your heart is filled with positive feelings.

  Sydney Banks

  Beautiful, Heart, Thinking

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• Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Death, Mean

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Past, Love Is, Thinking

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.85, Macmillan

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• For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

  Michael Pollan

  Ordinary, Forget, Moments

  Michael Pollan (2001). “The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World”, p.180, Random House

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• Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold

  Peace Pilgrim

  Needs, Done, Each Day

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.162, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

  Frank Herbert

  Happiness, Past, Waste

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• How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?

  Walker Percy

  Dream, Dark, Past

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• What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give.

  Alan Watts

  Discipline, Giving, Understanding

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• While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Optimism, Perspective

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). “The Dance of Life: Weaving Sorrows and Blessings Into One Joyful Step”

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• The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life Is, Given, Eternal Life

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• But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.

  Lauren Myracle

  Lauren Myracle (2009). “Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks”, p.153, Penguin

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• Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

  Brenda Ueland

  Creative, Creative Power

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• We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Jobs, Yoga

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• Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Worry

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• I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.

  Darren Johnson

  Focus, Want

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• I'm focussing on what I haven't attained, not what I have. A lot has come to me early. I don't want to get consumed with that. Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now. My goal is to play one full game in the now, but I haven't even gotten past the first inning yet. I start thinking about where my mom is or if my dogs have been fed. The average human has 2,000 thoughts a day. The really accomplished have 1,500 because you can focus longer. I need to learn how to focus longer.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Mom, Dog, Learning

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• I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Past, Knows, I Can

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 118, 1982.

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• Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth when he's performing, but when the show is over, he's sad and troubled. I wish he could live in the eternal present, because in the theater everything remains in memories and photographs. Literature, on the other hand, allows you to live in the present and to remain in the pantheon of the future.
  Literature is a way to say, I was here, this is what I thought, this is what I perceived. This is my signature, this is my name.

  Ilan Stavans

  Memories, Father, Men

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• I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

  Francesca Annis

  Regret, Thinking, Important

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