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“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
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Look lovingly at the present, for it holds the only things that are forever true.
~ A Course in Miracles
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“When you are present, you are not needy.”
~ John Kuypers, What's Important Now: Shedding The Past So You Can Live In The Present
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“Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way required by the immediate situation in which you are. Such a way of living leaves you free, not ruled tyrannically by imposed regulations which may not at all suit the particular case.”
~ Paul Brunton, The Notebooks of Paul Brunton
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“From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.”
~ Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
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“The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh, Art of Mindful Living: How to Bring Love, Compassion, and Inner Peace Into Your Daily Life
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It is in awareness that we bring everything to life that lives within us. There is no time like the present to give birth to creativity.
~ Kathleen Anderson
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
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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.
~ Charlotte Joko Beck
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We have only this moment, sparking like a star in our hand…and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
~ Marie Beynon
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
~ Buddha
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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
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What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.
~ Buddha
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Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.
~ Julia Cameron
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Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach out children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
~ Pablo Casals
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You should live every day like it's your last day because one day you're gonna be right.
~ Ray Charles
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Do not carry the burden of the past; do not live in the future. The only important thing is that one lives in the present authentically and fully. Whatever your current life is, be the most you can be by living in the moment.
~ Chan Chih
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Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we’re going to be more cheerful in the future, it’s because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.
~ Pema Chodron
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We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile.
~ Deepak Chopra
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We can escape the prison of our own beliefs and enter the Palace of Possibilities when we allow ourselves to be astonished by everything.
~ Gary Craig
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
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Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something – more money, security, affection – or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.
~ David Deida
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If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
~ Taisen Deshimaru
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
~ Annie Dillard
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Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with, to accept fully, what is in this moment.
~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.
~ Wayne Dyer
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You’ll seldom experience regret for anything that you’ve done. It is what you haven’t done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you’ve lost them forever.
~ Wayne Dyer
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Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.
~ Hafiz
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Be part of the miraculous moment.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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Find joy and peace in this very moment.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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Smile, breathe, and go slowly.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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At any moment you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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Life can be found only in the present moment. 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
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The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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The point of power is always in the present moment.
~ Louise Hay
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The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.
~ Frank Herbert
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The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
~ Storm Jameson
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Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
~ Corita Kent
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
~ Omar Khayyam
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You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing. As you change your mind, you change your experience.
~ Serge Kahili King
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We're all stumbling toward the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
~ Bo Lozoff
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Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have – so spend it wisely.
~ Kay Lyons
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I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
~ Abraham Maslow
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Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.
~ Soko Morinaga
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We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone—its value is incontestable.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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Today is a gift I honor by fully living it.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
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Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. 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. Delicious ambiguity.
~ Gilda Radner
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake.
~ Marie Beyon Ray
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Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
~ Maria Robinson
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Gratitude helps us to return to our natural state of joyfulness, where we notice what's right instead of what's wrong. It makes us feel complete, that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.
~ M. J. Ryan
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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
~ Vita Sackville-West
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Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
~ Barbara Sher
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We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today.
~ Sydney Smith
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The best things in life are the nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.
~ Robert Lewis Stevenson
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Each moment is a place you've never been.
~ Mark Strand
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We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
~ Lewis Thomas
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.
~ Eckhart Tolle
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Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.
~ Mark Twain
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A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential.
~ Jane Wagner
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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
~ Alan Watts
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
~ William Allen White
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There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.
~ Alexander Woollcott
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