Russell Banks Quotes

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

Life is sweetest when it could go away tomorrow.

I've been really aware of how important it is to me to just stay in the moment and enjoy it while it lasts. Because that's all you've got. If it ends, I'll move on to doing something else. If it lasts, great.

We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'

You never know when your last day gig is, and if you spend your life thinking about it, you'll drive yourself nuts. But I try not to foster or exhibit any desperation.

We have to realize that our lives could be gone in a moment. There are no guarantees that we will be here at this time next year. Learn to live each day to the fullest. Don't complain. Don't focus on what's wrong. Be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?

When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.

I just consciously try to enjoy the good things that are happening. And if it ended tomorrow, that would be fine.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

I really - I try not to look ahead too far into the future and really just appreciate the here and now.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.

I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

I'm having a good time. I'm going to treat every game and every day as if they are my last because I now know that they could be.

We may not know what each day has in store for us. We could be gone tomorrow. Any minute could truly be our goodbye. But we do have this moment. This time. Today. Right now. It takes way more effort to shell out hate then it does to allow love to flow freely in our lives. After all, it's what we were born to do.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.