Living In The Present Quotes

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

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

When I live each day so well, I will have no regrets when tomorrow never comes.

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 are what’s important in the end. Nothing else matters as much as that.

If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.

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.

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

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.

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

Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.

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

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Write to Say something, Say to Make something, Make to Be something.

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.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

Life is a fragile and awesome gift.

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.

Seize the day, then let it go.

Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.

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!