Here And Now Quotes

Here And Now Quotes by Peter McWilliams, Timothy Miller, Henri Nouwen, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, Philip Yancey and many others.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
Peter McWilliams
Attention is the intention to live without reservation in the here-and-now.
Timothy Miller
Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.
Henri Nouwen
Well… …That’s what you always forget, isn’t it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what’s happening. And that’s the same as not being here and now.
Aldous Huxley
Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.
Virginia Woolf
One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God’s will for the planet.
Philip Yancey
Think anything like that at her again, and I’ll kill you here and now.” Madigan’s scoff was uneasy. “Any attack on me -” “Is the same as an attack on the United States itself,” Bones finished, still in that deadly calm manner. “Heard you the first time – and didn’t give a shite then, either.
Jeaniene Frost
All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,–is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.
Arthur Goldberg
Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.
Gautama Buddha
Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.
W. H. Auden
The secret of health for both mind and body is…live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Gautama Buddha
Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Gautama Buddha
Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the here-and-now instead of a hoped-for hereafter, and make every day count in some meaningful way and do something-no matter how small it is-to make the world a better place.
Michael Shermer
Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life.
Nhat Hanh
I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But they’re not living right here and now.
Danny Masterson
Being completely and totally present and at every single point of space and time, It is fully and completely present here and now, thus we can no more attain immanent Spirit then we could, say, attain our feet.
Ken Wilber