Living In The Present Quotes

Don't ever stop believing in your own transformation. It is still happening even on days you may not realize it or feel like it.

Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.

To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it…it’s over. It can hurt you no more.

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.

Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love!

If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.

I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory is never like that. It makes hills of feeling in collapsed hours, a scene of enclosure made all precious by its frame.

Now is everythingNow is the essenceNow is the focusFocus on the nowFor that is the key

Sometimes it took death for me to see life, don't live with regrets keep your head high. In a world filled with beauty I don't want to blink twice; soak up every moment because you can't stop time.

Life doesn't happen to you, it happens FROM you.

The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.

It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Don't over-focus on the negatives and under-focus the positives in your life.

Mind is like a net, drawn by the needles of past and future. Mindfulness is the way for not getting stuck into that net.

I understood that the attachment to myself and my image ... was actually taking me away from my self, away from this wonderful opportunity to just sit, just breathe, just feel the warm animal of my body, just feel the soft, sultry heat of June. The density of my attachment was making it impossible for me to have a truly satisfying experience of life in my body just as it was in the moment. When under the sway of this obsession, my mind's attention was always in the fantasized future, or the idealized or devalued past - never present to the reality of the moment.

I'd rather be on the ground than underTo feel the heavy rain and the thunder.

To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.

i am not oxytocin but i will try to become, because I am Live In oxytocin Society

If you're in your 20s now, by the time you're 75, you'll be able to live 'til you're 150. By the time you're 150 you'll be able to live 'til you're 300. See you at your 1000th birthday party!

Find comfort in little things and joy in unexpected moments.

Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.

For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy to be alive.

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

A feeling of joy if not shared or tasted is a waste of a chance to be embraced.

When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.

If only I woulda done that.”“I really shoulda done that.”“I coulda done that.”I ask, “Do you really know what your life would be like now if you made those choices?” Believing in regret strips away our only chance to create a better future. That chance: what we decide to do today, right now, in the present.

I lit the candles and said out loud, “what am I waiting on? Someone to sell them in a garage sale for a quarter after I die?” And it was beautiful. And the smell was even more incredible than I remembered.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

Mindfulness is not a mechanical process. It is developing a very gentle, kind, and creative awareness to the present moment.

It's not in the life, it's in the living.

Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishes us in every sense.

Nothing takes you away from dwelling in the past or worrying about the future like living in the present.

Don’t spend too much time grieving for me, Elena. I know you’re probably a little sad as you’re reading this, since that means I’m dead and you’re having to learn how to go on in a new way. I would be sad if you didn’t miss me, so I won’t tell you not to, but I will tell you to keep on living. The world is full of beautiful music, flowers, places, and experiences. Enjoy it all as much as you can. Just remember it’s the people in your life that make it worthwhile...People and memories, not things are what’s important in the end. Nothing else matters as much as that.

Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

It seems sometimes that we get so caught up in missing the past, or looking forward to the future, that we forget that this, right here and now, was once the days we longed for and will soon be the ones we miss.

The way is yours for the asking - the way is yours for the taking. The way is as it should be.

I could think, write or tell, instead I Lived and Created Myself!

Mindfulness is not entering into another planet. It is making you good at what you do. It is restoring your link to the source of life.

Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being.

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have so we might as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.

When I live each day so well, I will have no regrets when tomorrow never comes.

No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.

I want to do a good job living today.

To live a little, love a little. To live a lot, love a lot.

We each want nothing more than to live for the moment. Nature hardwired us perpetually to follow the call of the wild, cull all the highs in life, and rejoice in life by dancing, singing, jumping, building nests, creating beauty, and playing with our young. We each find ourselves happiest when we are engaging in conduct that makes us feel alive.

Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In that, it is the pursuit to end all pursuits.

Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the fragrance spreads, and the bees come.

We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive.

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow.

No more tomorrows. Today is the day.

Live Today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened of your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist.

No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can't change either one. In the present is where your power lies.

To take that second chance, we need to notice where we are and be open to the possibility of growing.