Live In The Present Quotes - Page 8

• Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Future, Animal, Trying

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa”, p.132, Shambhala Publications

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• Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

  Townes Van Zandt

  Animal, Past, Thinking

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• We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal act. Contrary to popular belief, a writer is not Prometheus alone on a hill full of fire. We are very arrogant to think we alone have a totally original mind. We are carried on the backs of all the writers who came before us. We live in the present with all the history, ideas, and soda pop of this time. It all gets mixed up in our writing.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Thinking, Fire

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.102, Shambhala Publications

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• One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.

  Gertrude Stein

  War, Thinking, Young Generation

  Gertrude Stein (1945). “Wars I have seen”

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• The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.

  Gloria Steinem

  Issues, People, Encounters

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

  Amy Smart

  Moments, Enjoy, Best Gift

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• I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

  Henry Ford

  Mean, History, Giving

  Interview with Charles N. Wheeler in 'Chicago Tribune' 25 May 1916

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• People who are not enjoying their lives in the present have lust for life in the future. Lust for life is always in the future. It is a postponement. They are saying, 'We cannot enjoy today so we will enjoy tomorrow.' They are saying, 'Right this moment we cannot celebrate, so let there be a tomorrow so that we can celebrate.'

  Rajneesh

  People, Lust, Today

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• We do not have to die to enter the kingdom of Heaven, In fact we have to be fully alive. When we are truly alive we see that the tree is part of Heaven and we are also part of Heaven. The whole universe is conspiring to reveal this to us. Peace is available and when we touch it everything becomes real. We become ourselves, fully alive in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Tree, Heaven

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• The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

  Herman Melville

  Past, Tyrants, Wife

  Herman Melville (2000). “White-jacket, Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.152, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.

  Stephen Grosz

  Past, Ideas, Creating

  Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.157, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Relationship, Real

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.106, Random House

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• Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Art, Memories

  Mark Helprin (2017). “Ellis Island and Other Stories”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I really tried to go for that sound of the '60s pop melodies but I'm living in the present so that makes it contemporary. I like to pretend I'm outside of myself and that is what the recordings and the process helped me to do.

  Matt Costa

  Melody

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Suffering, Needs, Time Of Need

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.52, New World Library

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• Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet... it's so hard to let them go... to forget... to move ahead.

  Danielle Steel

  Moving, Past, Thinking

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• Wherever you are, be all there." I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.

  Ann Voskamp

  Regret, Worry, Ask Me

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• You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.

  Dalai Lama

  Enjoy, Anxious, Dies

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• It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

  Jim Bishop

  Life, Change, New Year

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• It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

  George Eliot

  Time, Years, Mindfulness

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

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• Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Death, Peace, Eternity Of Life

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• Act in the moment, live in the present, slowly slowly don't allow the past to interfere And you will be surprised that life is such an eternal wonder, such a mysterious phenomenon and such a great gift that one simply feels constantly in gratitude. So this is my message for you: live in the moment, herenow. That's why I call it divine purity

  Rajneesh

  Gratitude, Past, Live In The Moment

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• Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

  Jean Cocteau

  What Matters, Past Present Future, Earth

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the
  past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I
  just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.

  Townes Van Zandt

  Regret, Past, Men

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• I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Believe, Past, Attention

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