Quotes on “present”

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

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.

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

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17)

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.