Presence Quotes

Winter solitude—in a world of one color the sound of wind.

— Matsuo Bashō

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

— Virginia Woolf

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

— Thornton Wilder

I love a broad margin to my life.

— Henry David Thoreau

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

— T. S. Eliot

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

— William James

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

— George Eliot

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

— Mary Oliver

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.

— Barbara Johnson

Enough is a feast.

— Buddhist Proverb

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.

— Epictetus

Forever is composed of nows.

— Emily Dickinson

To be awake is to be alive.

— Henry David Thoreau

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

— Lao Tzu

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I exist as I am, that is enough.

— Walt Whitman

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

— May Sarton

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

— Annie Dillard

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

— Simone Weil