Quotes about living-in-the-present

The eye of your mind—your intelligence the eye of your heart—your conscience and the eye of your soul—your instinct.

Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life for you never know when it'll be your last.

Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better.

Life is happening at this very moment it is not behind us or before us. The past is full of memories and future is full of expectations.

Life is a fragile and awesome gift.

I want to do a good job living today.

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

In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.

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

Find comfort in little things and joy in unexpected moments.

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.

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.

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

Nothing cuts a neural route faster through the brain then a pinch of pain. Periods of unhappiness penetrate and scar the brain. Experiencing intense periods of unpleasantness incites us to grow. If we can bunt the destructive forces of extreme pain and embrace its forceful impact for its educational value, experiencing profound pain causes us to appreciate the pleasure of simply living in the moment, enjoying each blade of grass in nature’s glorious bouts of beauty.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Pyschoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we're going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we're creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.

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.

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

Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.

They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy. She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.

Live in the present, or die in your past; it's your choice.

The picture enclosed here is of a hibiscus that has been flowering in the parlor window one bloom at a time for what seems like a year or more. It’s getting to where I don’t remember when there wasn’t a bud or two and a flower either out or on the way.This morning there is a fresh new flower just like the one in the picture, but right next to it is the one that was new yesterday and is already spent. I don’t know whether to be happy for the beautiful one or sad for the one that is gone. I guess

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

We choose to live life to the fullest because it is in our best interest to do so. - Charmainism

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 idea

No more tomorrows. Today is the day.

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.

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.

You could continue to repress and think about the life you could have had or you can take what you want from life and see that the world finds that person infinitely more irresistible...

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

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.

Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.

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.

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

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.

No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.

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.

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

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

The kind of people I absolutely cannot tolerate are those who never let you forget they are religious. It seems to me that a truly religious person would let his life be example enough, would not let his religion interfere with being a human being, and would not be so insecure as to have to fawn publicly before his gods.

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

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

Letting yesterday affect today will only destroy the excitement of tomorrow.

Seize the day, then let it go.

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!

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the 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.

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.

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.