Quotes about presence

We stress too much for a life that can end at anytime. Make sure to live.

May you live every day of your life.

Your normal day is someone's dream, so be thankful every day.

You're so focused on the future that you don't realize, today was what you prayed for years ago.

Imagine reading a book with no way to turn back the page, how carefully would you read it? That's life.

Don't offer a lecture to a person who needs a hug.

The life you're rushing through is the life someone else ran out of time to live.

I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Remember that all is opinion.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

The cost of a thing is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.

He who should teach men to die would teach them to live well.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

This is the real secret of life—to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.

Don't think, feel. It is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Accept everything just the way it is.

As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.

Wisdom is born of meditation; without meditation wisdom is lost.

In a world become blind, I beat the drum of the Deathless.

Confine yourself to the present.

Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Inhale confidence, exhale doubt.

You are exactly where you need to be.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

Collect moments, not things.

Romanticize your life.

I think, therefore I am.

Bloom where you are planted.

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

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if you will ever dig.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

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

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, but just felt with the heart.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Be silly. Be fun. Be different. Be crazy. Be you, because life is too short to be anything but happy.

Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

The world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability.

What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love.

Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself, to see and to respond to the real world.

Living is the trade I want to teach him.

The sun is new every day.