Living In The Present Quotes

When I live each day so well, I will have no regrets when tomorrow never comes.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a fragile and awesome gift.

~ Steve Goodier

I want to do a good job living today.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control, living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better.

~ J'son M. Lee

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.

~ John Kuypers

If only I woulda done that.”“I really shoulda done that.”“I coulda done that.”I ask, “Do you really know what your life would be like now if you made those choices?” Believing in regret strips away our only chance to create a better future. That chance: what we decide to do today, right now, in the present.

~ Charles F. Glassman

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

You owe it to your inner-self to never allow your past to take the place of your present or future.

~ Hafiz

Pyschoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we're going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we're creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.

~ Stephen Grosz

So the earth is shaking Here the word's faking As there's no time for lies. Kiss and dance all nights! In no need of balanceNothing makes sense Get it loose with no excuse. Shake and dance!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

The picture enclosed here is of a hibiscus that has been flowering in the parlor window one bloom at a time for what seems like a year or more. It’s getting to where I don’t remember when there wasn’t a bud or two and a flower either out or on the way.This morning there is a fresh new flower just like the one in the picture, but right next to it is the one that was new yesterday and is already spent. I don’t know whether to be happy for the beautiful one or sad for the one that is gone. I guess if I wait until tomorrow I can be sad for the one that is so beautiful now. But how can I anticipate being sad for something that is so pretty?It’s really a good thing that people can only “see” the present because we are on the same train as a hibiscus except that we are on a longer trip. I’ve told you before but it fits in here so I will say it again. Sometimes I get feeling so good that I get afraid to anticipate the loss. If life could be a series of beautiful scenes and beautiful music and pleasant visits with people we love, then life should just go on forever. I suppose that’s why people get old and feeble with wandering minds. What is can end without too much loss, and what was did not stop so will be forever. Right now and as far as I can see, I want to be this morning’s flower. I’ll be a hibiscus. You be a rose…

~ M. Reed Mccall

They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy. She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.

~ Kiana Davenport

I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.

~ Jonathan Harnisch

The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You start to live when you commit your life to cause higher than yourself. You must learn to depend on divine power for the fulfillment of a higher calling.

~ Lailah Giftyakita

Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.

~ Amit Ray

Live in the present, or die in your past; it's your choice.

~ Bryant Mcgill

i am not oxytocin but i will try to become, because I am Live In oxytocin Society

~ Sushil Singh

I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory is never like that. It makes hills of feeling in collapsed hours, a scene of enclosure made all precious by its frame.

~ Lydia Millet

Living in the land of, What if....? leads to emotional paralysis. It sets the stage for doom and gloom thinking. It prevents us from experiencing the beauty of the present moment. Happiness resides in the here and now. It can not thrive in a prison of the past or in the worry of future outcomes that may or may not, happen. We need to trust that we have the divine wisdom within ourselves and through the support of others, to climb the treacherous terrain this human existence brings. It is worth the struggle. The view from the top is extraordinary. Onward and upward!

~ Jaeda Dewalt

For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy to be alive.

~ Miguel Ruiz

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The eye of your mind—your intelligence, the eye of your heart—your conscience, and the eye of your soul—your instinct.

~ Melissa Mcphail

It seems sometimes that we get so caught up in missing the past, or looking forward to the future, that we forget that this, right here and now, was once the days we longed for and will soon be the ones we miss.

~ John A. Ashley

Success and happiness are always missed by those who leave the present unattended to.

~ Hafiz

Write to Say something, Say to Make something, Make to Be something.

~ Shashidhar Sa

Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

To take that second chance, we need to notice where we are and be open to the possibility of growing.

~ Holly Elissa Bruno

Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.

~ Amit Ray

Mindfulness is not entering into another planet. It is making you good at what you do. It is restoring your link to the source of life.

~ Amit Ray

Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.

~ Michelle Cruz-Rosado

The way is yours for the asking - the way is yours for the taking. The way is as it should be.

~ Karen Hackel

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes it took death for me to see life, don't live with regrets keep your head high. In a world filled with beauty I don't want to blink twice; soak up every moment because you can't stop time.

~ Puerto Rican Princess

You could continue to repress and think about the life you could have had or you can take what you want from life and see that the world finds that person infinitely more irresistible...

~ Roberto Hogue

We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive.

~ Heather Blanton

No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.

~ Andrea Hairston

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have so we might as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.

~ Pema Chödrön