#present moment

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

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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

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

— Deepak Chopra

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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

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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

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

— Tennessee Williams

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Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment. ↗

— Alan Dundes

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The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked. ↗

— Amy Smart

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Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable. ↗

— Martha Beck

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God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

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