Living in the Now Quotes

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.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, 'one who knows the better way to live alone.'

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Don't worry about things that haven't happened yet.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

life is the moment we're living right now.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.

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.

Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

While your past can inform you and your future can inspire you, the moment of choice exists in the here and now.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

NOW is All There is & the Future is Just Another Present Moment to Live when it Arrives

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is the only moment we can experience.

The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.