Live In The Moment Quotes - Page 4

• When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mindfulness, Sparks, Moments

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• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Christmas, Summer, Time

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• When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle.

  Rajneesh

  Jumping, Miracle, Mindfulness

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• Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Future, Harvest Time, Years

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”

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• Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

  Corita Kent

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.

  Lauren Miller

  Funny, Life, Time

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• Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Past Present Future, Mindfulness, Live In The Present

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Future

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• ‎Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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• With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Time, Moving Forward

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.241, Harvard University Press

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• The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Past, Two, Moments

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• The moment is the sole reality.

  Karl Jaspers

  Inspirational, Reality, Cherish Every Moment

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• I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Girl

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

  Annie Lennox

  Life, Appreciation, Future

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• Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Baseball, Future

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• We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives.

  Solanus Casey

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Laughter, Creativity

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• Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.

  Barbara Johnson

  Love, Change, God

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.123, Zondervan

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• I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think about the miles I've already covered. I think about what I'm doing right now, just being lost in the moment.

  Ryan Hall

  Running, Thinking, Just Being

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• NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Memories, Past

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• It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

  Henry James

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.

  Aminu Kano

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.

  Joko Beck

  Inspirational, Life, Depression

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• In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspirational, Life, Pain

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.82, Souvenir Press

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