Henri Nouwen Quotes

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment.

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

Where ever you are, be there totally.

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping.

Presence is more than just being there.

I like to stay in the moment.

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

I have an intention to live each moment fully.

When I'm in the moment, I'm in the moment.

I try to be present in the moment and to be authentic, and to listen.

That's such a common saying: Just be present, live in the moment. But there's actually really something to it when you really start to learn it.

I live in the present; there is nothing more important than that.

I'm not trying to be efficient; I'm trying to be present.

I try to take each moment at a time.

I just want to enjoy every moment and try to be present in the moment of whatever I'm doing at that time.

What I've learnt is to be in the now. It's something my mum has always said to me, and when I read a book called 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle, I realised just how important it is.

My focus is to try to appreciate the present moment more and more and more.

I try to stay in the moment.

As you walk, you simply walk. Don't go ahead, don't jump here and there. Mind always go ahead or lag behind. Remain with the moment.