Present Moment Quotes
493 quotes by 256 authors
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality…
— Alan Ball
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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
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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
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Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
— Deepak Chopra
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What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment.
— Nick Saban
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Do not let anything from your past inhibit you in this Present Moment. Start over. Start Fresh. Each day. Each hour, if it serves you.…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
— Abraham Maslow
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Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you,…
— Laura Harvey
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Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don't allow them to be here in your mind,…
— Wayne Dyer
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Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.
— Nhat Hanh
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Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy.
— Leon Brown
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Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one…
— Marcus Aurelius
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It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact…
— Pema Chodron
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Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the…
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail…
— Matthieu Ricard
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Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in…
— Matthieu Ricard
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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment.…
— Jack Kornfield
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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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There is nothing that you can do to change the present moment. It simply is. You may be able to change the situation one second,…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
Who Wrote These Present Moment Quotes
256 authors contributed a total of 493 Present Moment Quotes, led by these top contributors: