Present Quotes

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God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple. — Rajneesh
The reality consists only of now, the present. It has nothing to do with the past and nothing to do with the future. It is… — Rajneesh
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… — Rajneesh
I teach you that there is no other aim than to live with such totality that each moment becomes a celebration. The very idea of… — Rajneesh
Each moment life is new and you have to respond from your inner newness, you have to be available to the new as the new.… — Rajneesh
Awareness means that whatsoever is happening in the moment is happening with complete consciousness; you are present there. If you are present when anger is… — Rajneesh
Greed arises only because your present moment is empty, and to live in an empty moment hurts very much. To forget it you project greed… — Rajneesh
The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it disappears when thoughts… — Rajneesh
Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour. — Horace
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. — Wayne Dyer
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity… — Bertrand Russell
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. — Norman Mailer
The Art of Success . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness,… — Wilferd Peterson
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. — Maxwell Maltz
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest… — Seneca the Elder
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be. — Pablo Picasso
My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a phenomenon correlative with… — Louis Pasteur
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. — Ellen Key
Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a… — Simone de Beauvoir

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