Quotes About Present

If you spend your life thinking, "I wonder if today is when it ends," you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.

I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.

People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

The secret of life is getting today right. Everyone can get today right, and if you can do it once you can do it repeatedly.

Dogs lead a nice life. You never see a dog with a wristwatch.

Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.

Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.

I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just enjoy the day you're in. Really make the most of it.

The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Every moment of your life, including this one, is a fresh start.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.

Life is a second-by-second miracle.

I never really look back. I just approach life (taking) it one day at a time. I'm just really grateful.

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

If you take a deep breath and look around, 'Look what's happening to me!' can become 'Look what's happening!' And what's happening? The incredible drama of life is happening. And we're in it!