Top 100 Live Life In The Present Quotes
#1. Live life in the present. This moment is the only thing that's real. Worrying about the future and lamenting the past only crowds out the beauty of what is happening now.
Daniel Levin
#2. Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels good, it must be good.
Gael Greene
#3. Well, it's more like a sentence on life," he said, grinning. "I live by three rules: Don't dwell on the past, present, or future, party hard, and never fall in love. Easy.
Ada Adams
#4. In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.
Sarah Brightman
#5. The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.
Eugene O'Neill
#6. The only way to live life is to live in the present. You can't put things off thinking you'll have time later. There may not be a later. - Katarina Kozlov
Dannika Dark
#7. The secret to happiness is to live in the present moment with gratitude and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#8. The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#9. Ninety percent of the population spends time imagining their future and forgetting that now is where we live and breathe. The ten percent who live in the present are the ones who have the stories to tell, the ones who live life the way it's meant to be lived.
Everly Drummond
#10. Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life.
Monica Bellucci
#11. The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.
Emmet Fox
#12. A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ... the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.
Evelyn Underhill
#13. To enjoy the beauty of life, live profoundly in the present moment without the fear of the past or future.
Debasish Mridha
#14. No ideals. No illusions. Just reality - but more perfect than you've ever imagined. That's what being mindful and living in the present means.
Lidiya K.
#15. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao-Tzu
#16. Live in the present. Tomorrow is a puzzle you can only solve with the answers you find today.
Sean Patrick Brennan
#17. I've spent most of my life trying to make it to a future that still hasn't happened, or avoid a past that won't let me go. I don't remember when I've ever just stopped to live in the present, to hold on to the seconds I'm in. ~ Emma
Rebecca Donovan
#18. To learn from the past is good, but to live there is a waste. To plan for the future is good, but to live there is a waste. You are happiest and most productive in life when you are living in the present.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#19. You can choose instead to live in the enriching, empowering light of your own highest visions. You can always choose to grow, to achieve, and to fulfill by immersing your awareness in life's ever-present goodness.
Ralph Marston
#20. 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
#21. Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
Ernest Hemingway,
#22. Learn from the past.
Act in the present.
Live for the future.
Myself
#24. 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
#25. To live a more balanced life, glance at the past, live in the present, and focus on the future.
Todd Stocker
#26. Be thankful for a breath of fresh air to be alive and well. Allow love and happiness to penetrate throughout your mind and soul. Take time to relax and live in the moment, the now, the present. Enjoy today.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#27. In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.
King Hussein I
#28. The present is precious gift.
The past cannot be replayed.
The future is no guarantee.
Live in the present.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#29. Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth
#30. Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.
Henry David Thoreau
#31. That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.
Nhat Hanh
#32. I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living now.
Paulo Coelho
#33. A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one's actions in their present moment.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#34. The bottom line is that you are the one who is creating your life the way it is. The life you currently live is the result of all your past thoughts and actions. You are in charge of your current thoughts and your present feelings.
Jack Canfield
#35. The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#36. We choose to live life to the fullest because it is in our best interest to do so. - Charmainism
Charmaine Smith Ladd
#37. Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they've lived that out, you'll know.
Sara Zarr
#38. Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to "keep your mind on your line," as the saying went.
Orson Scott Card
#39. Live life fully in the present & enjoy the small things in life that give you joy, for the seemingly small & insignificant moments add up to a greater whole.
Orchid Ch'ng
#40. I like to live in the present. I struggle with that, though, because - even for all of this "letting your life flow" stuff - I also have anxieties.
Meredith Vieira
#41. In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will witness. I almost wish that I might live my life over again to see the wonders which are at the threshold.
Charles Holland Duell
#42. Weed out worry, guilt, hate and fear from your life. Live in the present moment earnestly and wisely, without mourning about the past or anticipating troubles in the future.
Sanchita Pandey
#43. The extraction of deep wisdom can be done at any age, and if we are to love the time of our life, it must be. Imbedded within us is the deeper story we came to live, and the core issue at every age for any awakened human being is the extent to which we are living that story in the present moment.
Carolyn Baker
#44. Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.
Deepak Chopra
#45. Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace and you be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.
Caroline Myss
#46. According to the Buddha, life is available only in the here and now, the present moment. He said, "The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment." If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#47. One could not spend one's life in the imaginings of another life.
Aimee Bender
#48. To live in the moment is vastly different than living for it. To be truly present as life unfolds around one is to take fullest advantage of being alive.
April White
#49. All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.
Rajneesh
#50. The fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#51. If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present.
Roy Bennett
#52. Life happened in the past. Life will happen in the future, but life is happening at this moment. Live in this moment. Seize this moment!
Debasish Mridha
#53. There is no such word as 'too late,' in the wide world - nay, not in the universe. What! shall we, whose atom of time is but a fragment out of an ever-present eternity - shall we, so long as we live, or even at our life's ending, dare to cry out to the Eternal One, 'It is too late!'
Dinah
#54. Live your life the way you want to. Just don't live you life in the past. The past can you hurt you just as much as the present can. Just remember its your life. it's nobody's business accept for yours!
Hailey D.D. Klein
#56. It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.
Roy Bennett
#57. All is well. You did not come here to fix a broken world. The world is not broken. You came here to live a wonderful life. And if you can learn to relax a little and let it all in, you will begin to see the universe present you with all that you have asked for.
Esther Hicks
#58. If people tell you that
you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe
them. Real Life is found only in the present.
Leo Tolstoy
#59. Live in the NOW. Live life to its fullest. Don't spend more than 10% of your time learning from the past, and 20% planning for the future. Live in the present, act NOW to fulfill the dreams you plan.
Vikrmn
#60. They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy.
She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.
Kiana Davenport
#61. Some people say it is hard to live in such a way, being completely one with the present moment. Of course, it is not hard. The opposite is hard. Not being one with life is hard, and that is how most people live.
Eckhart Tolle
#62. You gotta live in the moment. I don't care what you've done in your life, it has nothing to do with what you're gonna do or what you can do. The past is history, tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift-that's why they call it the present.
Mike Ditka
#63. We live not in our moments or our years:
The present we fling from us like the rind
Of some sweet future, which we after find
Bitter to taste.
Richard Chenevix Trench
#64. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
#65. If I live in fear of what might be, how can I truly live my life to the full in the present? And if I do not give myself to the day, to hope, to life, what do I miss?
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#67. To life in the past and future is easy. To live in the present is like threading a needle.
Walter Percy
#68. Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft petal, with thorns but now it is left with only thorns which could still hurt.
Ideaswar
#69. We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
Ulrich Beck
#70. i am not oxytocin but i will try to become, because I am Live In oxytocin Society
Sushil Singh
#71. This is life. You know the philosphers? The Present never stops. There's only the Present. You cheat life if you live in the Past.
Scott Turow
#72. Live in the present moment, you can't go back to yesterday, you can't leap into tomorrow, Today is your second, minute, hour! Embrace It!
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#73. Only by a life of obedience to the voice of the Spirit, by a daily denying of self, by full dedication to Christ, and by constant fellowship with Him are we enabled to live a godly life and an influential life in this present ungodly world.
Billy Graham
#74. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#75. Chronocanine Envy:
Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.
Douglas Coupland
#76. 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
#77. Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you'll know what it means to live.
Steve Goodier
#78. Only when all conceptions of space and time, life and death, are exploded, when the grip of the past and fear of the future become merely conditions of one's past, only then can one live in the present fully.
Alberto Villoldo
#79. You chose to live here now. You should try to live in the present.
Francesca Marciano
#80. Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#81. All men live enveloped in the whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.
Herman Melville
#82. Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#83. Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth.
Marcus Aurelius
#84. I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
Susan Sarandon
#85. This is the ordinariness of the Present, without anything special, mystic or mysterious, it simply exists!! One should live through one's life from moment to moment, and allow things happen the way they want to happen. Abandon yourself into the Present! Be consciously present in every moment!
Frank M. Wanderer
#86. The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.
Alain De Botton
#87. Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
Louis L'Amour
#88. Live in the present, but live for the future.
Lorii Myers
#89. I don't think we ever really live in the present; instead, we're either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation and recollection. That's where I lived my life, always wanting, longing, wishing.
Jonathan Hull
#90. Make the present moment your friend rather than your enemy. Because many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment.
Dan Harris
#91. Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.
Emil Cioran
#92. We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life ... We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the milieu in which we live; for it corrupts our instinct and our will, and constricts our heart and our intelligence
Mikhail Bakunin
#94. The way to live in the present is to remember that "This too shall pass." When you experience joy, remembering that "This too shall pass" helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that "This too shall pass" reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary.
Joey Green
#95. We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
P.D. James
#96. When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.
John Phillips Marquand
#97. Anyone knowing how to live for the moment, to live in the present as she did, treasuring every little wayside flower with loving care and deriving value from every playful little instant, had nothing to fear from life.
Hermann Hesse
#98. live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day. Anna's
Mark T. Sullivan
#99. The more you are grateful for what you have, the more you can live fully in the present.
Dana Arcuri
#100. We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
R.D. Laing
