Present Moment Quotes

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

Future, Mind, Past

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Chanakya

Men, Future, Past

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Moment, Memory

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
Emmet Fox

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow

Moment, Present, Ability

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
Deepak Chopra

Life, Time, Moment

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson

Hope, Future, Mind

The point of power is always in the present moment.
Louise L. Hay

Power, Moment, Point

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Freedom, Struggle

My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Time, Wife, Children

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.
Martha Beck

Future, Trying, Moment

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.
Jane Seymour

Life, Love, Simple

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
Lorna Luft

Children, Moment, Present

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
Evelyn Underhill

God, Gratitude, Him

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

Best, Living, Moment

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.
Robert Delaunay

Problem, Moment, Research

I live in the present moment.
Stacy Keibler

Live, Moment, Present

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
Karl Jaspers

Lost, Philosophy, Moment

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.
Alan Dundes

Moment, Often, Trouble

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.
Joseph Hume

Moment, Result, Present

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.
Mary McDonnell

Beauty, Moment, Alive

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
Bruce Catton

Morning, Nice, Waiting

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.
Michael Emerson

Time, Experience, Feeling

At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.
Ethel Rosenberg

Government, Moment, Difficult

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