C. S. Lewis Quotes

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

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

The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Step into this moment, because it is the only one you have right now. It is not wasted or thrown away. The divine opportunity could be stolen unless you tell yourself it is here right now; available to you this moment, to make of it anything you choose. Why not choose this moment, right now, to be available to yourself by declaring, I AM GOOD! . . . . The richness of the present is here. The fullness of now is present. If you are not here now, it means you could be missing the love, joy, peace and brand-new ideas that are here right now.

Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life.

Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.

The present gives you the opportunity to dive deep into the water of life, or to fly high into the sky of life. But on both the sides there are dangers - 'past' and ´future´ are the most dangerous words in human language.

Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life - a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

Every moment of your experience is the peak of life experience. This is where your powerful now is.

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.

It is now. It is always now. Now is good. Now could be the best. My name is Catcher. My name was Catcher. My name...my name... I am... I am lost, I am found and then I am free and I am happy. When I jump over that edge, someone leaps with me, shoulder to shoulder. I smell kinship on him. Kinship is all. I'm not alone. Never alone. I land, earth below me, moon above. I am wolf. We are pack. And that is all I need.

There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.

Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.