Live In The Here And Now Quotes

“You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Live your life without ever having to ask, 'What if?”
― Ken Poirot

“Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.”
― Germany Kent

“The 7 Steps to Transformation:
1. Dream it.
2. Envision it.
3. Think it.
4. Grow it.
5. Become it.
6. Live it.
7. OWN it.”
― Germany Kent

“Granddad is on his mat, meditating. He says, "You have to live in the present, Lucky." "But it's impossible to forget." "I didn't say you had to forget it. Never forget it. But stop living there. Live here, in the present. Think forward to your future." "My future is three more years of Nader McMillan." "Yes, but from now on you're the one in control.”
― A.S. King, Everybody Sees the Ants

“But you decide how you live your life in the meantime. You can hide fear. Or you can live life. - V”
― Gayle Forman, Sisters in Sanity

“Funny how we do not realize the true value and legacy of a living icon until they suddenly pass away. Truth is, there are many living legends among us, we just do not stop and take time to notice their worth until it's too late.”
― Germany Kent

“You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today that you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but you'll never know.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl

“The future is always unknown.
Live your own life.
Live in the moment.
Live so well in the present, so that when tomorrow never comes, you may have no regrets.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Don't waste today by talking about yesterday until it's finally tomorrow.”
― Tim Fargo

“Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.”
― Richard Carlson

“Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as they might or
should be, but as they are, right now, in this moment. The
heart sees the now; the mind only sees the next. If you can’t
learn to see the now, you’ll never see what’s truly there, and
then where will you be?”
“Trapped”
“Precisely. But if you take care of the now, the future will
work out as it should.”
― E.J. Patten, Return to Exile

“Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.”
― Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life

“He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot or starve,kill or be killed,shelter or suffer,procreate or count for nothing-has clarified his thinking,purged him of politics and its constant search for compromise.”
― Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt

“Treasure yourself for being, not doing.”
― Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

“An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The goal of any spiritual person is to strive towards attaining self-realization by living spontaneously in the present moment of physical reality, free from anxiety and distress, unencumbered by frivolous affections, and liberated from specious attachments.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Live your best dreams.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains us from the strictures of living a terrestrial life stuck like a needle vacillating between the magnetic pull of endless desire and the terror of death. Once we achieve freedom from any craving and all desires and we are relieved of all titanic fears, we release ourselves from living in perpetual distress. Once we rid ourselves from any impulse to exist, we discover our true place in the universal order. The composition of our life filament is exactly right when we accept the notion of living and dying with equal stoicism.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I must cease living the false life of an imposter, and stop worrying about the future or risk sacrificing the joy of living in the moment. I am a seeker. I shall listen to the teaching my blood whispers and ecstatically accept life unfolding in whatever manner my innate material demands.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, emotions, and sensations occurring in the present moment is essential to comprehend and appreciate the beauty of existence. Living in the moment in a non-judgmental manner allows a person to accept what is without wasting emotional energy and valuable time wishing or hoping for something besides objective reality.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“No Teacher for Present (The Sonnet)

Life's purpose is realization of life,
Beyond the narrowness of yesterday.
Instead of waiting for a fictitious future,
Life is whatever you make of it today.
The past is always afraid of the future,
Don't let their fear ruin your present.
The future may be condescending to the past.
Don't let such arrogance ruin your humanness.
Embrace the wonders that the past has to offer,
Learn from their blunders even through their denial.
Be mindful of the direction that you are headed,
Then leap to work on the present, lock, stock 'n barrel.
Neither past nor future is qualified to teach the present.
All present must find their way free from all allegiance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Life on earth is to be live but once.
Live life to the best you can.
Live to your fullness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Live a life of faith, hope and love.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When you are now and here, calm is everywhere.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana

“We must live life in the present as shaped by the past. The option to begin afresh does not exist. The past days and nights were the sacrificial coals that fired an internal furnace. The dying embers fueled my present being. I need to locate new nutrients to revitalize an unfulfilled soul. I seek to unearth fresh energy sources and forge a renewed resoluteness to slog through the remainder of this gaseous and hard-pressed sojourn. Any prior personal inspiration for living righteously was lost on a remote outpost somewhere along the fractured trail. I go on because I must. I trust that if I industrially seek, I shall ascertain a purpose in life that currently eludes me. If I tread long enough, if I assiduously track sufficient true miles, I shall discover a purpose that fits me. I continue to push forward with an unbowed determination, navigate into the deep unknown with the confidence of an experienced admiral who knows that if he endures the gale forces of self-doubt and persist despite all setbacks that he will discover what he seeks. A person must rely upon personal consciousness as a guiding compass into penetrating the unalleviated obscurity that shrouds the way. I shall always resist the easy path, because it leads to an apocalyptic demise.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“One cannot think well, love well, and live well until one has learnt how to honor their own sensuality.”
― Lebo Grand

“If you haven't lived before, now's the time to do it.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Enjoy the present it's a gift after all.”
― Marion Bekoe