BEST QUOTES ABOUT LIVING IN THE PAST OR PRESENT IN AMAZING NEW APP
A revolutionary new iPhone app delivers powerful quotes about living in the past or present. Could they make you question your habits, or even change your life? By Ben Arogundade.
YESTERDAY OR TOMORROW: A selection of original quotes about living in the past and present, from the new iPhone app 365 Positivity.
WHERE DO YOU LIVE? In the now, or in the yesterday? In the today, or in the future? Such questions lie at the heart of the human condition, and form a perpetual narrative within film and literature. But where do we stand as a society when it comes to our conscious relationship with the past and the present? Google has the beginnings of some interesting answers. Currently, the phrase, “the past” is searched 22,000 times per month globally, while the term, “the present” is Googled only 4,500 times. While these figures are far from conclusive, they nevertheless go some way in suggesting that we may be more concerned with yesterday than we are with today. We see this being played out on a terrifyingly destructive scale around the world, via wars and conflicts, much of whose justification focuses around dogmas, ideals and grievances that belong to the past. Fighting in the present for reasons to do with the past is perhaps the most insane element of human culture. As a species, humans display a compulsive need to remember, but also a desperate need to forget — but it is the forgetting part we struggle with, individually, nationally, globally.
QUOTES ON LIVING IN THE PAST & PRESENT?
The state of “being present” is the central theme underlining mindfulness, the self-improvement phenomenon currently catching fire around the world. Based on meditation, and rooted within 2,500 years of traditional Buddhist doctrine, it centres around being perpetually focused on “being in the now”, instead of dwelling on the events or traumas of the past, or else harbouring anxieties about the future. It has been embraced by everyone from celebrities to the US Marine Corps to technology companies such as Google and Apple, as the answer to the stresses of modern living and working. Could it also be the answer to some of the conflict around the world? Could mindful presidents, living in the now, be less inclined to wage retrospectively motivated wars? “Mindfulness, well-taught, increases one’s levels of care and concern,” says mindfulness trainer Michael Chaskalson. “Leaders who care more change things for the better.”
A NEW MESSAGE
365 Positivity may be read as part of this thinking. The app delivers mindful messages direct to users mobiles each day — 365 times to be precise. Each simple quote is designed to spur positive change in the user, whether they are male, female, young or old, and which they can use in the pursuit of their own personal self-betterment. “Don’t regret not loving in the past. Love now,” is one of the app’s quotes, most of which consist of original writing, as opposed to collections of old phrases from well-known celebrities and personalities past and present. Now approved by the UK's National Health Service (NHS), the app's new quotes cover a diverse array of subjects aside from messages on living in the past or present — including love, kindness, motivation, compassion, success, diet and the beauty of nature.
Amongst the app’s 365 quotes there are messages that are relevant for everybody, including you.
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