Presence Quotes

“When you stop searching, you find that what you were searching for was always here.”

“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does.”

“Without a doubt, the single biggest gift I've gotten from being a climber is the ability to be in the moment.”

“Memory is the faculty of coming into the presence of the absent.”

“For me, the goal is always to be in the moment.”

“The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not to long for what is out of sight.”

“My whole squad's in here, walkin' through the atmosphere.”

“My thing is to be a part of the music, to be in the moment.”

“You have to be in the moment and you have to be listening. That's the most important thing.”

“I've always believed that if you're not in the right place, you can't be in the right place at the right time.”

“It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.”

“Jazz is about being in the moment.”

“The very air of the room seemed to vibrate with the thoughts of the King in Yellow.”

“The theatre is the art of the present moment.”

“We must live in the present, not in the past or in the future.”

“In basketball—as in life—true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.”

“The past is dead and gone. The future is not yet born. Why worry about either?”

“It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that you are alive.”

“When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.”

“Don't jam your intentions in your work. That's not the point. The point is to be present.”