Live In The Present Quotes - Page 5

• I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Past, Reality, Possibility

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Time, Eternity, Present Life

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• Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long.

  Billy Corgan

  Long, Today, Tomorrow

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• Only when all conceptions of space and time, life and death, are exploded, when the grip of the past and fear of the future become merely conditions of one's past, only then can one live in the present fully.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Past, Space, Life And Death

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Apr 15, 2015

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• I live in the #‎ present moment.

  Stacy Keibler

  Moments, Present Moment

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• Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Revolution, Tomorrow, Transformation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.38, Rajpal & Sons

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• If YOU want to BUILD and MAINTAIN a POSITIVE ATTITUDE, get into the habit of LIVING IN THE PRESENT and DOING IT NOW.

  Shiv Khera

  Attitude, Want, Habit

  FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jan 24, 2015

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• I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Thinking, Style

  "Shirley MacLaine talks about Bernie, Alfred Hitchcock, and Dean Martin". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

  John Phillips

  Writing, Character, Past

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• I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you’re in … because when you improvise you’re in right now. You’re not in yesterday or tomorrow—you’re right in the moment. Being in that moment really gives you a perspective of life that you never get at any other time as far as learning about your ego… You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

  Charlie Haden

  Thinking, Yesterday, Giving

  "'Live In The Present': Charlie Haden Remembered". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2014.

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• We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We'll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century with dreams.

  Hideo Kojima

  Dream, Moving, Past

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• Marriage is an effort to legalize love. It is out of fear. It is thinking about the future, about the tomorrows. Man always thinks of the past and the future, and because of this constant thinking about past and future, he destroys the present. And the present is the only reality there is. One has to live in the present. The past has to die and has to be allowed to die.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Past, Reality

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• Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Focus, Balance, Might

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• We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

  Thomas Traherne

  Maturity, Past, Prudent

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• Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will.

  Sarah Knowles Bolton

  Past, Soul, Forget

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• The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.

  Ian Jack

  Wise, Writing, Past

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• Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

  Francois Fenelon

  Giving, Grace, Live In The Moment

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• We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Mindfulness, Debt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Eye, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1283, Delphi Classics

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• Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

  Deepak Chopra

  Desire, Mindfulness, Moments

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• What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear.

  Brian Weiss

  People, Overcoming, Moments

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• Live in the present as if the future is going to become the past that you have changed.

  Philip K. Jason

  Past, Changed, Ifs

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• I don't live in the present, I Am The Present.

  Paul Palnik

  Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Life

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• Meteorologists have the right perspective. They ground themselves in the current conditions (today’s highs/lows). They briefly acknowledge significant events of the past (record temps). And they keep an eye on the future (five-day forecast). Honor your past accomplishments, live in the present moment, and look to the future.

  Clifton Anderson

  Eye, Past, Accomplishment

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• I also live in the present, due to the constraints of the space-time continuum.

  Hank Green

  Space, Constraints, Continuum

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