Live In The Present Quotes - Page 11

• I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

  Dhani Jones

  Beautiful, Long, Realizing

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• To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

  R. D. Laing

  Past, May, Satisfying

  R.D. LAING (1969). “SELF AND OTHERS”

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• The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.

  Geneen Roth

  Benefits, Fantasy, Problem

  Geneen Roth (1992). “When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy”, p.94, Penguin

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• To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.

  Henri Nouwen

  Believe, Important, Here And Now

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• The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Future, Thinking, Sacred

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.103, Grove Press

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• The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

  Storm Jameson

  Past, Able, Moments

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.128, A&C Black

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• it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.

  Brenda Ueland

  Thinking, Live In The Moment, Care

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody really lives in the present.

  Ruth Rendell

  Ruth Rendell (2010). “A Judgement In Stone”, p.65, Random House

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• The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It just lives in the present moment - wholeheartedly. If the present moment spells disaster, the child suffers it with his whole heart, his whole soul, his whole strength, his whole little being.

  Maria Franziska von Trapp

  Children, Grief, Heart

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• I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.

  Ali MacGraw

  Grateful, Looks, Pieces

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• Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.

  Rick Pitino

  Motivational, Past, Anxiety

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Lying, Inspiration

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• We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Past, Different Experiences, Jumping

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• Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Genius, Wit

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.104

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• There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Love, Relationship, Truth

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• To live in the present moment is a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Miracle, Moments, Trekking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.1, Parallax Press

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• The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.

  Jacob Braude

  Past, Profit, Plans

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• Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Struggle, Past, Simple

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• I had a massive heart attack, and in my belief that I was close to dying, I took the opportunity to teach my son about death. That lesson increased his faith in such a way that he completely accepted all the changes that life brings us. He learned that only the present exists. From that moment on, he began living in the present time, knowing that the future is just a possibility, and without believing all the opinions from the past. He understood that there are no guides, or masters. Each one of us is our own guru, and we can only save ourselves.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Believe, Heart, Son

  "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

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• Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Past, Play

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• Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

  Roger Ebert

  Past, Want, Periods

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom and receive answers. A peaceful heart is one that is free from worry and rouble. It's becoming quiet so we can look at things quietly so we can more clearly understand them and thus come up with creative solutions. It is learning to live in the present. Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

  Laozi

  Heart, Order, Worry

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• We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Real, Lying, Dancer

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• Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

  Louise Hay

  Past, Forgiving, Forgive Yourself

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Mar 28, 2016

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• We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.

  Marianne Williamson

  Letting Go, Past, Dwelling

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