Be Here Now

I was pondering the reason why we are all here in this life, and what did it all mean. It seemed to me that we had all been invited to one big party, but no-one’s...

The past,’ he thought, ‘is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.’ And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain;...

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we...

Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without the other. Since the body can only exist in the present, that’s where the mind should be too...

Knowledge is just a strong belief shared internationally that can be changed at any moment.

Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft...

You’re the one person whose opinion I care about. When I’m with you, the past dissappears, and I’m a better person.

Never permit your negative past to come in-between you and the possibilities and opportunities that lie in your present and future.

Forget seeing the future. Most people can’t see the present until it’s in the past. Like me, all my I love yous match up with all my ex’s I loved yous.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

That’s the funny thing about life. We’re rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not...

He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusiona distraction

Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have – so spend it wisely.

No one can predict the future exactly, but we know two things: It’s going to be different, and it must be rooted in today’s world.

Life’s all about balance. To move on in life you have to strike a balance between your past, present, and your future; you may either be jerked off or left behind.

Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us?

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out...

The past, has been erased; the present, forgiven; and the future, redeemed.

I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.

The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn’t put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be…

Normally in such cases even if the President wants someone to be present his staff informs the board to make that person available. And if the board was supposed to do this they have not...

Boxes of toilet paper make the best birthday presents. They really show I give a shit.

Strike the rock and the water will flow; don’t wait to brag about why you alone can hit the rock for water to flow; just go and do it because the world is thirsty! Your...

To me, there’s no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

You are people with a present and with a future. Don’t muff the ball. Be excellent.

If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me: ‘Why have you grown up such a dull dog, when I gave you such a good start?...

It never occurred to me before, but I always thought of time like it was a road, or an empty plane. I could see it and mark it and claim it as mine, but the...

Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present.

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

I could say now at 66, yeah, I was a fabulous dancer. I was really terrific, you know. But I was always present. I was present. I was supposed to be where I was supposed...

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

I shall not dwell in the past…I shall not dread the present…I shall not fear the Future…For as Long as I live…I shall only think of success.

Never look back; you may only find what you left or let you go.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn’t be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same...

[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt....

I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That’s why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift… for those who are willing to receive it.

People exiled in the past and disowning the present may build the wealth but not the future.

He was always crazy about her. If he was a king then she was his crest– the emblem of his kingdom. Without her, his world is lost. He left his house or rather palace, now...

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.

Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.