#Present Moment Quotes

“Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.”

“The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.”

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”

“All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.”

“[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.”

“Each moment of the year has its own beauty.”

“My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.”

“To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.”

“Postpone not your life.”

“There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary person is the one with whom you are, for no person knows whether he or she will ever have dealings with anyone else: and the most important affair is, to do the person good, because for that purpose alone were human beings sent into this life!”

“Enjoy the moment, because that is all you have. You never are going to arrive someplace else. You are in a constant state of living in this moment, and that is the only arrival there is. In fact, you will arrive when you stop trying to get someplace else.”

“You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.”

“To fill the hour──that is happiness.”

“Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today.”

“When there is hope in the future, there is power in the present, and since hope is the foundational quality of all change, there is considerable reason to be excited.”

“Every moment is an eternity in itself. Bliss is the present moment and each and everyone of us needs to understand this.”

“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."”

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

“Make today worth remembering.”

“But whatever you've been today is already over.”

“If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.”

“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.”

“The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.”

“We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning”

“If you are always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in.”

“Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.”

“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.”

“Abundance is about looking at life and knowing that you have everything you need for complete happiness, and then being able to celebrate each and every moment on earth.”

“Don't start your day with broken pieces of the past. Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day and it's yours.”

“Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.”

“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.”

“The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.”

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

“How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?”

“Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'”

“Everything I need now is here”

“You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.”

“The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.”

“Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.”

“There's keen delight in what we have:The rattle of pebbles on the shoreUnder the receding wave.”

“Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.”

“Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.”

“At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.”

“For the moment, what we attend to is reality.”

“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.”

“Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.”

“You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.”

“Your lifetime in form is to be honored and celebrated. Go beyond your enslavement, and live fully in the now, as this is the only time you have.”

“There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.”

“Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.”