Orhan Pamuk Quotes

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

I just live day to day, in the present. And I try to just be that best version of myself every day - I don't look too far behind, I don't look too far forward.

In order to keep my creativity alive, I just try to enjoy life to the fullest.

Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time.

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

Living in the past or living in the future - those aren't real. The moment is now, and that's where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.