Be Present Quotes

“she was completely whole
and yet never fully complete”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles

“Easter Contemplations

It does not concern me
If this life is all I have.
I do not need a resurrection
Or reincarnation
Or to live with the gods.

It is enough to live
With you here
In the days of your presence.

When my breathes
Are complete,
Lay me by your side
In the dust.
As in life, so in death.
Let us become one
With each other again.”
― Eric Overby, Journey

“It takes me living an intentional, mindful, and quiet life to hear or see what’s here. Great art doesn’t necessarily create something new, it helps you appreciate what’s already here.”
― Eric Overby, 17: Haiku Poems

“Be present to the people in front
of you from moment to moment.
Electronics and technology have a
way of clouding our vision for the people
sitting next to us. Uncloud your life, look around.
Be present.”
― Eric Overby, Journey

“Experience what it feels like to be fully present and grounded in the moment, in the now.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree, A Little Bit of Meditation: An Introduction to Focus (Little Bit Series)

“Begin to feel instead of thinking, feel your body from head to toe, feel your heartbeat, feel the air going in and out of your body. Listen to the sounds from outside, smell the scents. Feel inhabiting your body, be present here and now.”
― Caro Briones, The Extraterrestrial Girl

“The most important thing offered by a caregiver is simply their complete presence”
― Arthur Kleinman, The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Doctor

“To be sensual is to be able to tap into your soul’s true desires. It is to be in harmony with the energetic pulse of the moment.”
― Lebo Grand

“We do not need more things to be happy—
just some gratitude would do.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Now is where your brightest greatest self breathes.”
― Sravani Saha Nakhro

“Be present to this moment and open endless doors of awareness. Now is where the joy is; be here now.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree, Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life

“Don't live for a happy ending.
Live for a happy now.”
― Jonathan Saccone Joly

“On our first night looking at the new book, we marveled over the photo and description of Argiope aurantia, the Black and Yellow Argiope spider, common throughout the United States. And the very next day, for the first time ever, we found a wriggling cluster of freshly emerged argiope spiderlings under the lowest wooden step of our back deck. While Claire hovered over the spiderlings and sketched them in her notebook, I wondered over the fact that if we'd found these spiders just the day before, we would have known nothing about them. And I was sure, on some level, that it was learning about them that allowed us to find them, Whenever I renew a commitment to studying raptors or gulls or crows or the birds in my backyard, more are given, more show themselves. Our efforts are rewarded, our studies are enhanced in experience. I cannot explain this, and I am reluctant to sound too woo-woo but we can take this as confidently as if it came from the Oracle at Delphi: the more we prepare, the more we are "allowed" somehow to see. This is a guarantee: select a subject, obtain a proper field guide, study it well, and you will see more than you ever have of your chosen subject — and more than that besides.”
― Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

“Irony can be an endearing friend in one moment, and a cruel enemy in the next.”
― Dave Cenker, Second Chance

“Binge Watching: If you're really trying to soften and heal, to find ways to help the planet and those around you, start by staying present in your life.”
― Helen S. Rosenau, The Messy Joys of Being Human: A Guide to Risking Change and Becoming Happier

“Vivere solo in funzione di una meta è sciocco. È sui fianchi delle montagne che si sviluppa la vita.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance and Siddhartha 2 Books Collection Set

“Be present in you.”
― Adrienne Posey

“When you are engrossed in the day-to-day living, you are so much outwardly entangled that you often fail to even talk for a second with yourself.

Connecting with yourself in the early hours of the day or at any single moment of your day gives you energy for the entire day.”
― Neena Paul, D I L: Deeply in Love

“you began as roots
but you blossom into more
you are not your past
be here, be present
be more”
― R.H. Sin, I hope this reaches her in time

“If you start keeping track of your thoughts and write them down, you’ll find that most of the time, you are either thinking ahead or looking back.”
― Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

“He lived where he was, began to enjoy the moment he was in, instead of fuming about the moment of departure which should have, and had not, arrived. These were his life's beatitudes, times when his own nature did not separate him from his life; when the needle of his being held steady at the very moment and place of his existence. It was his ambition to live his whole life in this way; though he had schemes and plans for everything else, he knew no way to scheme himself into such moments.”
― Jessamyn West, South of the Angels

“You can't go home again.

If an experience was wonderful, don't try to re-create it.

It will never be as beautiful as it was the first time.”
― Iris Apfel, Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon

“We may not have the power to change the past, but we can change how the past influences our present state of being.”
― Troy Hadeed, My Name Is Love: We're Not All That Different

“I have learned to accept and appreciate beauty as it is, without always having to reason why.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson eloquently conveyed in his poem ‘The Rhodora’ (1834), ‘If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty has its own excuse for being.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“The scene was dreamy, surreal, and picturesquely still, exhibiting the kind of beauty that is subtle and not calling for attention, but nonetheless there for anyone who is present enough to see it.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Life is full of simple pleasures;
if one does not know how to enjoy them,
one would easily miss out on it.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Night-time moves us in mysterious ways. Darkness brings to light things that we would not otherwise notice in daylight.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“The night wakes up the senses;
it wakes up the Soul.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“A moment is indeed all one could ever ask for from perfection; but if you live fully and love with all your heart and soul, it is worth everything—and one moment is enough.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“High school, this day, your graduation—it's all important. But I don't want you to think of this as the end, Piper. This is truly just the beginning for you. Some students see high school as the finish line. When times get tough, it may seem easy to think that, too. But don't. Stay open and brave to the big world. Grow. Move. Expand. Always create. Always be the present you, not the past you. Be now. Then be now. Be now, now, now.”
― Kayla Cagan, Piper Perish