Quotes on Live In The Present

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

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