Live In The Moment Quotes - Page 11

• When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Life, Peace, Heart

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• Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Passion, Littles, Moments

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1971). “The world of Gwendolyn Brooks”, Harpercollins

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• They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.

  Miguel

  Children, Past, Littles

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• Two things, generally, for me, is what life is about. And they're not funny. Living in the moment, is one. And No. 2 is getting out of yourself and helping other people. Because all of my suffering stems from thinking from myself.

  Bobby Lee

  Helping Others, Thinking, Two

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• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  Fidel Castro

  Birthday, Men, Thinking

  Fidel Castro's letter from prison, December 19, 1953.

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• There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.

  Julian Barbour

  Moving, Moments, Instant

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Eye, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1283, Delphi Classics

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• Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

  Simone Weil

  Saint, Today, Moments

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.28, Routledge

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• You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Moments, Present Moment

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• Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

  Francois Fenelon

  Giving, Grace, Needs

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• I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

  Anne Parillaud

  Law, Feelings, Trying

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• Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this suset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.

  James Clavell

  Beautiful, Karma, Blessed

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• We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Matter, Moments, Mans Search For Meaning

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• Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.

  Kadir Nelson

  Kids, Moments, Being Authentic

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• Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that thy are fools, so thy are not worried about what others think about them.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Wise, Thinking

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• By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Patterns, Resistance

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.35, New World Library

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• Find the most delicate qualities within; then treat these qualities as tiny little seeds that you would plant in your heart, with you being the gardener.

  John de Ruiter

  Heart, Quality, Littles

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• Live in the moment, just do it - those are phrases thrown around by people who don't know what they mean. Just do it - it's idiotic. You could slap that slogan on a picture of Hitler and it would make as much sense. He did it, all right.

  Gregory Galloway

  Mean, People, Phrases

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• Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often.

  Amy Poehler

  Play, People, Choices

  Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

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• I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply still today: Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often. Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you're scared, look into your partner's eyes — you will feel better.

  Amy Poehler

  Eye, Feel Better, Jumping

  Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

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• When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood orseason of Nature's penetrated me, history suddenly appeared to me in some tiny act, or a face had begun to haunt me before I glanced at it.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Stories, Tiny, Faces

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• Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge

  Dan Millman

  Mind, Use Of Knowledge, Moments

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• There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

  Ricky Williams

  Mean, Ideas, Missing

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• I try to live in the moment, every moment.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Trying, Moments

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• The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk and lose the bet?

  Price Pritchett

  Future, Perspective, Entrepreneur

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