Presence Quotes

"I just always try to do my best every day. I just focus on the present and let things happen."

"We are so distracted and focused on what's next, we can fail to see what is actually in front of us."

"Don't think too hard. Just be present, and things will reveal themselves."

"The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become."

Robert Holden

"Be here now."

Ram Dass

"Wherever you go, there you are."

Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."

"Gratitude is not a passive response to something we have been given; gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us."

David Whyte

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."

Henri Nouwen

"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement... that is a friend who cares."

Henri Nouwen

"When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"May you know that absence is full of tender presence and that nothing is ever lost or forgotten."

John O'Donohue

"The way we deal with loss shapes our capacity to be present to life more than anything else."

Rachel Naomi Remen

"The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives."

Elizabeth Thornton

"May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence."

John O'Donohue

"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention."

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Barbara Johnson

“We convince by our presence.”

“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.”

"Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us."

Rachel Naomi Remen

"You are the music while the music lasts."

T. S. Eliot

"Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there."

Annie Dillard

“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

Jesse Jackson

“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."

Meister Eckhart