Recognizing that this moment is enough, that in spite of the struggle, there is joy; and that beneath your pain there is peace – is the only way for you to truly live your life. You have to understand that every second of your life is part of a wonderful adventure, embrace it. If you’re starting to feel tired, remember to look back at these quotes about living in the moment we prepared for you here. Don’t forget to breathe and remind yourself you are worth it.
Quotes About Living in the Moment
1. Live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find eternity in each moment. – Henry David Thoreau
2. At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening.
3. Wherever you are be all there. – Jim Elliot
4. I always live in the present. The future I can’t know. The past I no longer have. – Fernando Pessoa
5. If you are depressed, you are living in the past, if you are anxious, you are living in the future, if you are at peace, you are living in the present. – Lao Tzu
6. To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now. – Thich Nhat Hanh
7. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. – Alice Morse Earle
8. Learn to focus only on the present. The past is unchangeable so it is futile to reflect on it unless you are making sure you do not repeat mistakes. The future is but a result of your action today. So learn from the past to do better in the present so that you can succeed in the future. – Jordan Lejuwaan
9. Living in the moment is being aware of the moment we are in. If our minds are in the past or future, we are not truly alive in the present. – Satsuki Shibuya
10. There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live. – Dalai Lama
11. If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. – Amit Ray
12. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. – Denis Waitley
13. Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy. – Marsilio Ficino
14. Don’t let the past steal your present. – Cherralea Morgen
15. The art of life is to live in the present moment. – Emmet Fox
16. You have to let go of the past, in order to live in the present.
17. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life. – Thich Nhat Hanh
18. Do not dwell on the past, do not dream of the future, concentrated the mind on the present moment. – Buddha
19. Eternity belongs to those who live in the present. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
20. 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 breath is a gift. – Oprah Winfrey
21. The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is. – Eckhart Tolle
22. When you try to control everything, you enjoy nothing. Sometimes you just need to relax, breath, let go and live in the moment.
23. The great science to live happily is to live in the present. – Pythagoras
24. If you live in fear of the future because of what happened in your past, you’ll end up losing what you have in the present.
25. Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. – Earl Nightingale
26. Don’t let the past steal your present. – Cherralea Morge
27. Be present in all things and thankful for all things. – Maya Angelou
28. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. – Charles Dederich
30. We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are. – Bill Watterson
31. The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. ― Lauren Kate
32. Yesterday is a canceled check, tomorrow is a promissory note, today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. – Kay Lyons
33. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. – Thich Nhat Hahn
34. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life. – Eckhart Tolle
35. You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this. – Henry David Thoreau
36. Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware. – Thich Nhat Hanh
37. Happiness, not in another place but this place not for another hour, but this hour. – Walt Whitman
38. This is real freedom the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present. – Deepak Chopra
39. Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat? – Goldie Hawn
40. You can’t go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is now. – Jay Asher
41. Instead of bracing yourself for the perils of the unknown, embrace the joy that is here, in your present moment. – Michelle Cruz Rosado
42. The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt
43. Nothing is worth more than this day. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
44. The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of “Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait.” – Robert Brault
45. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. – Thich Nhat Hahn
46. Today is the blocks with which we build. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
47. If there’s one thing I learned, it’s that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day, the here, the now. ― Simone Elkeles
48. We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today. – Sydney Smith
49. Life is a preparation for the future, and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none. – Albert Einstein
50. Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. – Jerry Spinelli
51. My past and my future depends on today. – Trevor Hall
52. History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that’s worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today. – Henry Ford
53. Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today. – Cherokee Indian Proverb
54. The next message you need is always right where you are. – Ram Dass
55. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. – Buddha
56. Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. – Jean de La Bruyère
57. Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. – Coreta Kent
58. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry all forms of fear are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence. – Eckhart Tolle
59. The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, “what is” is what we want. – Byron Katie
60. The first recipe for happiness is, avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. – André Maurois
61. Remember then there is only one time that is important, now. It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. – Leo Tolstoy
62. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. – Abraham Maslow
63. Past and future are in the mind only, I am now. – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
64. The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. – Chris Cobbs
65. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. – Albert Einstein
66. One today is worth two tomorrows. – Benjamin Franklin
67. We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. – Thornton Wilder
68. There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. – Robert Nathan
69. Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.
70. Forever is composed of nows. – Emily Dickinson
71. You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. – Jan Glidewell
72. Today is life, the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. – Dale Carnegie
73. Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity. – Deepak Chopra
74. Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment this day is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day each moment of this day–a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity. – Dan Custer
75. Don’t let the past steal your present. – Cherralea Morgen
76. Stress is the distance between where your thoughts are and where your life is happening. – Dean Jackson
77. It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis. – Margaret Bonnano
78. Happiness, not in another place but this place… not for another hour, but this hour. – Walt Whitman
79. 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
80. Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. – James Thurber
81. Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. – Michel de Montaigne
82. Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. – Mother Teresa
83. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. – Gilda Radner
84. Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. – Wayne Dyer
85. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. – Oprah Winfrey
86. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. – Eckhart Tolle
87. Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. – Jerry Spinelli
88. The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need. – Ann Richards
89. Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. – Andr_ Gide
90. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. – Abraham Maslow
91. Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time, the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time past and future the more you miss the now, the most precious thing there is. – Eckhart Tolle
92. If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and stuck in the past. The only thing you have any control over is the present moment. simple breathing exercises can make us calm and present instantly. – Tobe Hanson
93. Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow. – Catherynne M. Valente
94. Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others. – Charlotte Eriksson
95. I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. ― Abraham Lincoln
96. It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same, being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. – Victoria Moran
97. Your life requires your mindful presence in order to live it. Be here now. – Akiroq Brost
98. If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong. – Masaru Emoto
99. Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. – Jean de La Bruyère
100. The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. – André Maurois
101. If you were conscious, that is to say totally present in the Now, all negativity would dissolve almost instantly. It could not survive in your presence. – Eckhart Tolle
102. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. – Alice Morse Earle
103. Mindfulness can help people of any age that’s because we become what we think. – Goldie Hawn
104. Focus on opportunities not setbacks. Focus on what you can do, not what you can’t. Focus on the present moment, not the past or the future. Empower yourself. – Akiroq Brost
105. Forever is composed of nows. – Emily Dickinson
106. The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt
107. Let everything happen to you, beauty and terror. Just keep going, no feeling is final. – Rainer Maria Rilke
108. You can’t go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is now. – Jay Asher
109. I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. – Groucho Marx
110. We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are. – Bill Watterson
111. The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. – Lauren Kate
112. Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon. – Charles M. Schulz
113. All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. – Martha Graham
114. Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. – Betty Smith
115. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of. – Benjamin Franklin
116. I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. – Thich Nhat Hanh
117. We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives. – Maya Angelou
118. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering. – Ida Scott Taylor
119. She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That’s life. It hurts, it’s dirty, and it feels very, very good. – Orson Scott Card
120. I don’t know who my grandfather was, I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. – Abraham Lincoln
121. 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
122. Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. – Horace Mann
123. Nobody knows how things will turn out, that’s why they go ahead and play the game. You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it’s hardly ever what you expect. – Gennifer Choldenko
124. A life is measured by moments like these. – Maggie Stiefvater
125. Live in the moment.
126. What matters is what we do with the life we have. – Carrie Ryan
127. Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit? – Pat Conroy
128. Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. – Jerry Spinelli
129. No amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future. – Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab
130. Instead of bracing yourself for the perils of the unknown, embrace the joy that is here, in your present moment. – Michelle D. Rosado
131. A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one’s actions in their present moment. – Michelle D. Rosado
132. The point is to be in the moment, not miss the moment while trying to capture it. – Sheralyn Pratt
133. The present is a great treasure, live in the present. – Lailah Gifty Akita
134. “Maybe,” Nina had yawned. Who cares? It was war. Day was night. Life was death. Sorrow was joy. Who cared about anything but the now? – Kate Quinn
135. Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment. – Sidney Poitier
136. The manifold of the past, present, and the future all form a single vivacious composition that only exists in the mind’s eye as separate isolated stages in a forward spooling continuum of space-time. Eternity and time are distinct qualities. Eternity is a dimension of time, an aspect framed by thinking and action. We exist in the present; we live in the element of time referred to as the here and now. We experience life in the eternity that bookends our life force. I need to realize my separate identity in eternity and at the same time actively cogitate upon my indivisible participation in the interwoven continuum of space-time. – Kilroy J. Oldster
137. Healthy emotions are like a systematic investment plan. Invest in them to gain happiness. – Harshada Pathare
138. I was afraid to be confident for a long time. I had to quit second guessing everything because I worried so much about being wrong or worse, offending anyone. It was never intentional, but I wasted far too much energy and time holding myself back. – Emilyann Allen
139. Remember to do everything with an abundance of love. So that one day you will remember the beauty of every moment lived. – Mimi Novic
140. This day, this hour, this minute, will not come around again in our entire life. Let us speak with love to everyone we meet and remind each other how beautiful we really are. – Mimi Novic