Present Moment Quotes

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

Live purely in the moment on a rampage of appreciation.

Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.

You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.

You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!

Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.

Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time.”- Seneca“Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

There was never any more inception than there is now,Nor any more youth or age than there is now;And will never be any more perfection than there is now,Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

You're always on your way somewhere. The key is: find a way to be happy wherever you now are on your way to where you really want to be. (We're speaking of the state of being you want.) It does not matter where you are; where you are is shifting constantly - but you must turn your attention to where you want to go. And that's the difference between making the best of something and making the worst of something.

When that which I have chosen to focus upon in this moment evokes love or joy or appreciation, I am, in that moment, offering my greatest value to myself, to my current object of attention and to All-That-Is.

I don't think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business - or for anyone. Most of the time goal setting puts too much energy and attention on being someplace else, instead of helping you appreciate where you are.If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people." I would not be telling myself constantly that I have to double my sales in order for me to be happy. I would tell myself, "I am content to be here in this moment, and I love this work."

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.

The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

A day is a miniature eternity.

Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self-defeating items that you can eliminate from your life.

You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.

The future never comes. Life is always now.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

The best time to do something significant is between yesterday and tomorrow.

By referring to previous struggles and using them as reasons for not getting on with your life today, you're assigning responsibility to the past for why you can't be successful or happy in the present.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

This Day, whate'er the Fates decree;Shall still be kept with Joy by me:This Day then, let us not be told,That you are sick, and I grown old

Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.

I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.

Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!

Some people say it is hard to live in such a way, being completely one with the present moment. Of course, it is not hard. The opposite is hard. Not being one with life is hard, and that is how most people live.

There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin ray of sunlight - and it is visible but a fraction of a second. The moments that preceded it have been lived, are forgotten and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived. While you are asleep you are dead; and whether you stay dead an hour or a billion years the time to you is the same.

Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

When you feel confused or burdened by problems focus on THIS INSTANT and ask yourself: WHAT PROBLEM DO I HAVE RIGHT NOW? You will find that there is no problem NOW. A challenge that requires action, possibly, but not a problem.

Today no matter where I'm going, no matter what I'm doing, no matter who I'm doing it with, it is my dominant intent to look for and find things that feel good when I see them, when I hear them, when I smell them, when I taste them, when I touch them. It is my dominant intent to solicit from experience and exaggerate and talk about and revel in the best of what I see around me here and now.

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right.

Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth.

With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.

Surrendering only refers to this moment, whatever "is" at this moment - to accept unconditionally and fully whatever arises at this moment.