present moment quotes

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

Forever is composed of nows.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

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.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

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

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Confine yourself to the present.

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