#present moment

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#does #interesting #junction #know #last

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment. ↗

— Chanakya

#anxious #deal #discernment #fret #future

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. ↗

— Emmet Fox

#expression #god #himself #instruments #life

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#i #i do #ideal #ideal world #into

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#concept #description #does #experience #feeling

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#life #moment #plenty #present #present moment

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#away #before #breaking #felicity #flights

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#degraded #despise #enjoy #freedom #last

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#except #goes #going #hardly #life

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#moment #often #present #present moment #trouble