Live In The Present Quotes by Thomas Traherne, Mark Helprin, Azzedine Alaia, Mahatma Gandhi, Ruth Rendell, Chiang Kai-shek and many others.
We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.
Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.
Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It’s interesting to know the old methods. But you have to live in the present moment.
Be the change you want to see.
Nobody really lives in the present.
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.
I have memories – but only a fool stores his past in the future.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
They’re trying to tell us that we’re not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can’t know who you are if you don’t spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.
Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it
The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present.
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
We think we’re living in the present, but we’re really living in the past.
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
