Presence Quotes

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

- Maria Edgeworth

"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are."

- Confucius

"The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need."

- Ann Richards

"I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be."

- Danny DeVito

"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."

- Friedrich Schiller

"The habit of forever looking backward is fatal to efficiency just as is the habit of looking forward too much. Today is the day. Live the day and have done with it. Fling your best into it, then you have nothing to regret, and there is no need of anticipating tomorrow."

- O. S. Marden

"The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is."

- Alan Watts

"To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today."

- Barbara Johnson

"Forget yesterday—it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow—you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift—today."

- Steve Maraboli

"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

- Alan Watts

"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."

- Alan Watts

"We find there is only present, only an eternal now."

- Alan Watts

"For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere."

- Alan W. Watts

"Most of us assume as a matter of common sense that space is nothing, that it's not important and has no energy. But as a matter of fact, space is the basis of existence. How could you have stars without space? Stars shine out of space and something comes out of nothing just in the same way as when you listen, in an unprejudiced way, you hear all sounds coming out of silence. It is amazing. Silence is the origin of sound just as space is the origin of stars, and woman is the origin of man. If you listen and pay close attention to what is, you will discover that there is no past, no future, and no one listening. You cannot hear yourself listening. You live in the eternal now and you are that. It is really extremely simple, and that is the way it is."

- Alan Watts

"Live in the moment and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering."

- Fanny Crosby

"Yoga takes us to the present moment, the only place where life exists."

- Ellen Brenneman

"Yoga begins right where I am – not where I was yesterday or where I long to be."

- Linda Sparrow

"The purpose of yoga is to stop the misery before it comes."

- Patanjali

"Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance."

- Shirley MacLaine

"Live for each second without hesitation."

- Elton John

"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life."

- Buddha

"Wherever you are, be all there."

- Jim Elliot

"When we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present."

- Alan Watts

"Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again."

- Gustav Mahler

"Six Words of Advice: Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest."

- Tilopa, translated by Ken McLeod

"You will never have this day with your children again tomorrow. They will be a little older than they were today. This day is a gift just breathe and notice, smell and touch them, study their faces and little feet, pay attention, relish the charm of the present. Enjoy today."

"Yoga takes you into the present moment. The only place where life exists."

"Here comes another day to live life to the fullest. Hope you make every moment count."

"The aim of life is not to be on the ladder, but to be truly present with those we love."