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Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you. — Francis De Sales

To be fully present with what is, is to be content ... and to be content is to be blessed by everything that happens in life. — Michael Neill

Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present. — Laini Taylor

Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from your
desk or lingering in a bath, let the deprogramming begin. — Gina Greenlee

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. — John Maynard Keynes

Being present here and now is the highest compliment you can pay to a woman in your life. — Lada Ray

On the off-chance you won't live forever, maybe you should try being happy now. — Janice Kaplan

My fellow, you strike me at present as being situated in the moon, kingdom of dream, province of illusion, capital: Soap-Bubble. — Victor Hugo

I really believe in the value of just being more present with the people you're around. — Clayton Snyder

I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you're with. — Morrie Schwartz.

The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit. — Albert J. Nock

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present. — Eckhart Tolle

To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love. — Claude Debussy

When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me. — Dorothy Day

Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening — Joan Armatrading

They tend to forget that nothing in a polarized universe can exist without its opposite being present. - — Frank Herbert

Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge. — Deepak Chopra

My main job is to remain connected to God. When my primary focus is being present with him, everything else has a way of falling into place. — John Ortberg

This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this. — Pauline Hanson

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible ... — William Gaddis

Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life. — Mark Nepo

But I think sometimes happiness just meant living. Being present. Being alive. Being surrounded by those you loved. — Paige Weaver

No ideals. No illusions. Just reality - but more perfect than you've ever imagined. That's what being mindful and living in the present means. — Lidiya K.

If you didn't love your past, when it was present ... there is no sense in loving it and being with it today ... — Mayank Sharma

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being. — Huineng

What was the purpose of being wrapped like a present if you had no feelings for the person you were being given to? — Lisa See

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets. — Umberto Eco

Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you're not in denial, you're not pretending, and you're not avoiding. — Debbie Ford

My past is an echo of my perfect present being the shadow of my stellar future. — Lyna Jones

Have the # life you want by being fully present to the life you have. — Mark Nepo

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware. — Nhat Hanh

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Being present is being connected to All Things. — S. Kelley Harrell

Photography is about being exquisitely present. — Joel Meyerowitz

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end. — Cesare Pavese

I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk. — Cinda Williams Chima

The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present — Rasheed Ogunlaru

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things. — Thomas Jefferson

Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future - present-mindedness is your only safe haven. — Bryant McGill

Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic. — Kadir Nelson

Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future. — Thomas Kinkade

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere. — Wayne Dyer

Gratitude is present when you see that everything that occurs in your life can be used to show you how to live fully as a human being. — Maria Nemeth

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last. — Abraham Cowley

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be. — Rachel McAdams

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness. — Thomas Merton

We must be present enough and receptive enough to "hear" with our whole being beyond just the words that are being spoken. — Henry Kimsey-House

I want to present a very strong and bold image, but with femininity. I love being sweet and salty all together. — Keke Palmer

The past affects the present even without our being aware of it. — Francine Shapiro

You don't build a bond without being present. — James Earl Jones

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping. — Don DeLillo

Practice being in the present. Do what you're doing 100%. — T. Harv Eker

One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good. — Patrick O'Brian

This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else. — Rajneesh

There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you. — Ioan Gruffudd

It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present. — Rama Swami

Mastery, on the other hand, is being present with what is occurring, staying with it from beginning to end. — Peter Ralston

We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person's uniqueness. — Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me. — Janet Mock

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself. — Gloria Steinem

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open. — Rian Johnson

I still feel that I'm capable of being as emotionally present as when I was young. — Edward Hirsch

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with. — Diane Lane

Often, the price for not being present is pain. Now, — Kamal Ravikant

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest. — Joseph Hume

Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being. — Sara Maitland

Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. I meet others with the life I've lived, not just with my questions. — Krista Tippett

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am? — Raoul Vaneigem

Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home - because you are home. — Eckhart Tolle

He was the least scary adult present, besides being English and therefore fascinating. — Jeanne Birdsall

Being in the present moment, one can step outside the mechanical train of life, and this is where the inner revolution begins. — Belsebuub

I just like being present. — Theo James

Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered. — Richard Paul Evans

The present is never a happy state to any human being. — Samuel Johnson

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee. — John Zachary Young

Time is made of moments.
The present is today.
New day and new grace.
Today is my precious time on earth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Being connected to everything has disconnected us from ourselves and the preciousness of this present moment. — L.M. Browning

I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world. — Joan Didion

Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there. — Edith Wharton

Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink. — David Joseph Cribbin

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home. — Ernest Istook

In teaching, I like being able to present clips from movies on VHS or DVD and then talk about them. That's what this movie is. — Thom Andersen

Spontaneity is being present in the present. — Wei Wu Wei

New insights from being present are a gift. — Gina Greenlee

I believe in being fully present. — Mitch Albom

Only by being present can you be happy. Too much attention to the past and the future takes the now away. And once it's gone, you never get it back. — Katherine Howe

No person that has ever felt the benefits of being present can consider himself a victim, or unhappy in any way. — Lidiya K.

Mindfulness is the art of being present in the moment, without passing judgement about your experience. — Rhena Branch

I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening. — Jewel

A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend. — Olivia Wilde

Most people think of love as a feeling, but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present. — David Richo

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them — Tara Brach

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

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along. — Gloria Steinem

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present. — Alexander MacLaren

It's all very Eckhart Tolle when you think about it - the key to being charismatic is being PRESENT. — Gala Darling

You can miss an experience by obsessing over how to contain it. — Gina Greenlee