Top 100 Quotes About Living Life In The Moment
#1. I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.
Jill Hennessy
#2. People search for the inner meanings of life instead of living it to the fullest. Life is too beautiful to be analyzed. Living is a spontaneous response meant to be taken in a stride.
Adhish Mazumder
#3. 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.
#4. Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
Emm Cole
#5. The reality is that we are safe and we have the capacity to enjoy the wonders of life in the present moment. When we recognize that our suffering is based on images instead of current reality, then living happily in the present moment becomes possible right away.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#6. You are a light born to shine. You are not who the world thinks you are. You are not what you think you are. You are as God created you. Never see yourself less than that. You are powerful than you know!
Kemi Sogunle
#7. Two things, generally, for me, is what life is about. And they're not funny. Living in the moment, is one. And No. 2 is getting out of yourself and helping other people. Because all of my suffering stems from thinking from myself.
Bobby Lee
#8. Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive.
D.S. Mixell
#9. I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
Thornton Wilder
#10. Peaceful is he who is living in the moment, but not in the past nor in the future.
Debasish Mridha
#11. You know how we're thinking about food these days, less in terms of carbs and calories than in terms of color, vivacity, and life force? We can do the same with time. Then it's no longer about having enough of it but about infusing color and vivacity and life force into every moment. (279)
Victoria Moran
#12. The Warrior lives a life full of adventure, living on the edge of opportunity. Life on the edge keeps him in a space of heightened awareness and totally in the moment; therefore no matter what comes his way he is always prepared.
James Arthur Ray
#13. Do you mistake me?
I am speaking of living,
of moving from one moment into
the next, and into the
one after, breathing
death in the spring air ...
Denise Levertov
#14. 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
#15. Sometimes I wish I could just press a button and be through school and starting my real life,' I told him.
'This is your real life, Al,' he said, 'Don't start living in the future. That's like gulping down a piece of fudge cake and then asking yourself, 'Where'd it go?' You're missing the moment.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#16. Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#17. Start living right here, in each present moment. When we stop dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we're open to rich sources of information we've been missing out on - information that can keep us out of the downward spiral and poised for a richer life.
Mark Williams
#18. Seeing all life
in perfect symmetry.
Perceiving each day
with righteous clarity.
Living each moment
in purposed reality.
Believing each day
is the start of eternity.
S. Tarr
#19. You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you ever moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shown you worlds that no other living men have seen?
H.P. Lovecraft
#20. When you maintain long-term relationships with the people and things you value most, this dedication reveals worth, reliability, trustworthiness, beauty, and integrity. Be someone who adds value and cares for cherished loved ones and belongings in this moment or for life.
Laura Staley
#21. Giving someone gifts cannot equate to spending quality time with them. Never replace time with things. Time is precious and once lost cannot be regained. Make every moment count...you never know when your time will be up.
Kemi Sogunle
#22. I think that dying is the easy part of life; for in waking each day and living in every moment, therein lies the challenge
Jeremy Aldana
#23. We let life live us, instead of us living life.
Helen M. Ryan
#24. Living a life that in fact lives them, as well as death dies them every moment since the triumphal birth in order to die.
Sorin Cerin
#25. It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.
Geneen Roth
#26. I don't care what you do. We all deal with it if we're living life, trying to find those moments where you can turn off your brain and connect to whatever and just be grounded, live in the moment, which I find really difficult but try to practice on a daily basis.
Lisa Rinna
#27. 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
#28. Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.
Deepak Chopra
#29. With each day, each hour and every moment of life, no matter how small, I realize that I have found a way of bringing me straight to the one person that I would give everything for ... to you. I am living in a dream, in a dream I don't want to awake from.
Sawm Rad
#31. The picture has no religion, no caste, no name,
And the best part about it is that the picture stays the same.
Adhish Mazumder
#32. Cherish like a son, a daughter, each irreplaceable moment.
Marty Rubin
#33. Peter couldn't help remembering the stirring moment when he and Kate had sung back into life the chorus of health and well-being in Andrew's body; the base chord that hummed in all living beings, distinct to each person but closely linked together.
Alan McCluskey
#35. Thank you. (Nykyrian)
For what? (Kiara)
For giving me a life worth living. I know I'm not worth it, and that I don't deserve it, but I swear to the gods I finally believe in that I will spend every moment I have left making you happy and trying to be worthy of you. (Nykyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#36. If you concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens ... Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.
Paulo Coelho
#37. In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.
Brodi Ashton
#38. Abiding does not mean sitting idly by. It means resting in the work, resting in the moment, resting in the truth, resting in the confidence that God is your provision.
Robin Bertram
#39. Let the Gods create the days, and just live through them.
Andrew Ashling
#40. But life is lived at the moment you are living it, she thought. No one but God in heaven has the benefit of seeing beyond today.
Susan Meissner
#41. For a moment, frustration clouded his features. He inhaled deeply, and the clouds went away. I miss people, you know? I miss actually living. I want to have a purpose in my life, but I don't. I'm just existing, and I don't know how long I can continue it.
Rose Wynters
#42. We often take for granted those familiar faces and places, the repetitive nature of something once new, excitement wanes. To capture that early moment and hold onto it for all our days, true bliss. Looking at the old in in a different way, making it new once again.
Jonathan P. Lamas
#43. Every single act of love, hate, or lapse of judgment may be the defining moment in a person's life.
Shelley K. Wall
#44. Nothing worth having comes easy is not about showing up early at the office. It's about showing up in your own life. And living inside the very moment you want to run away from.
Augusten Burroughs
#45. Life is happening at this very moment; it is not behind us or before us. The past is full of memories and future is full of expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#46. I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.
Shaun Hick
#47. When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.
Joan Z. Borysenko
#48. We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.
Ann Druyan
#49. Memories are painful and beautiful; wisdom is wonderful. When I am living in the present moment, I use wisdom and enjoy the memories of the past.
Debasish Mridha
#50. While 'Once upon a time' may be a great way to start a story, 'Here in the moment' is the best way to live one.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#51. There comes a moment in every woman's life when something she was tightly holding on to - just slips from her hands. Sometimes it's a dream. Sometimes it's a place . . . a person . . . a purpose. Sometimes it's the life you always thought you'd be living.
Kristen Welch
#52. As I look back on the time I've spent with him, loving him, learning him, I'm grateful for the moments. Because in the end, it's the moments that make life worth living ...
Marie Hall
#54. It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.
Roy Bennett
#55. 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 breathe is a gift.
Oprah Winfrey
#56. Practice living every moment of your daily life deeply and in freedom. If that's what you really want, then what you need to do is let go of pursuing the past, the future, and all your worries, and come back to the present moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#57. Life without challenge
is life denied any chance
for one to achieve.
J. Benson
#58. El Shaddai. My all-sufficient God who is able to handle all my needs. Everything I will ever need I can find in Him. Think about that for a moment. Do you sense the power He offers us in those words? There is nothing, absolutely nothing in your life that He cannot handle.
Diane Moody
#59. Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short ... was she happy? Not for a moment.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#60. Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in this identical disguise.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#61. As much as they were right for each other, time wasn't right for them.
Parul Wadhwa
#62. There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.
Bill Pullman
#63. The important thing isn't proving you can achieve a goal, but living every moment along the way, even the side trips
Lisa Wingate
#64. One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good.
Patrick O'Brian
#65. Happiness cannot be owned.
It is in living in the spiritual experience of living every breath, that lets us taste a moment of it.
Mimi Novic
#66. There is nothing more powerful than this moment your living, now, more powerful than your convictions and truths, spend time with what your heart desires and souls screams for. Life ends a day before we know it, it's so important to chase everything that matters to you.
Nikki Rowe
#67. You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.
Edwin Land
#68. As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we're really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.
David Levithan
#69. " ... One can learn to focus on 'opportunity' as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in times of sickness, someone who habitually practices grateful living will look for the opportunity that a given moment offers and use it creatively."
David Steindl-Rast
#70. Savor the moments in life that make your heart glow. Chase after and find the moments that will take your breath away. In the end, it is only those milestones on life's journey that matter.
Michael Delaware
#71. 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
#72. A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?
Robert A. Heinlein
#73. Do you know what the Spirit-filled life is? It is living every moment as though you are standing in the presence of Jesus Christ!
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#74. Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#75. Not truly living in the present moment and later regretting is like closing your eyes when a peacock is dancing, only to want to see it dance once it is gone.-RVM
R.v.m.
#76. It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life ...
the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.
Deepak Chopra
#77. God's purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.
Elizabeth George
#78. Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.
Suzanne Farrell
#79. You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.
Italo Calvino
#80. Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.
Oprah Winfrey
#81. I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.
Kurt Andersen
#82. No person that has ever felt the benefits of being present can consider himself a victim, or unhappy in any way.
Lidiya K.
#83. I am afraid, I cannot and will not 'surrender' to Orthodoxy!!
My life in itself is an 'Epic experiment' of nature and new living!!
And I am living the 'Great Adventure'..this moment..NOW!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#84. He was refusing to be beaten by the past or crushed by the future. He was living, as a man ought to live, every fibre of him, in the only moment he ever really possesses - this moment!
David Grayson
#85. When we ... go back in to the past and rake up all the troubles we've had, we end up reeling and straggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment.
Pam W. Vredevelt
#86. My daughter has pointed out that there were not enough lovejobs to go around in this new world. In any event, I probably learned tolerance, maybe even literary affection for the person in the wrong historical moment, living such long, never to be mediate wars with other sufferers.
Grace Paley
#87. No, I don't like you, I just thought you were cute enough to kiss you.
Frank Ocean
#88. Love is eternal. That is its terror and its final beauty. Love never ends. The joy may go out of it, and, in time, even the pain may end. But it lingers like a living thing and follows you every moment of your life.
Alice Borchardt
#89. On more than one occasion I heard how life apparently advances, moves on, sets sail or, at worst, apparently crawls slowly forward. My life, on the other hand, simply exploded like a firecracker in the hand of God, a small flare in his mighty firmament of bombardment.
Hassan Blasim
#90. Life should be more about living in the moment than fearing what's happening outside it. It's about honoring what you want to do at any given time, regardless of what everyone else is doing. There's no use worrying about things that are out of your control.
Connor Franta
#91. I want to sleep. To find a safe place somewhere, and close my eyes, and rest, like an animal.
That is what I am. An animal. Living from moment to moment, day to day, trying to make sense of the world in which I find myself.
S.J. Watson
#92. The most foolish thing I've ever done related to money was spend too much of my life worrying about whether I had enough or didn't have enough, I always felt I never had enough. I cheated myselfout of living in the moment, and I'll bet I die with a lot left over.
Lois P Frankel
#93. With God, all things are possible- including, dominating adulthood, swimming upstream for life, and living in light of eternity in a world that tells you all you can do is live for the moment.
Katie Kiesler
#94. And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present
Wendell Berry
#95. We can reach untainted experiential freedom, by living in the moment as it is - without contemplation. Here we find the possibility of freedom - of just being - living as our authentic self. We are our true nature. We are one and whole.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#96. What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.
Melvyn Douglas
#97. If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?
Na'ama Yehuda
#98. The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.
Paul Bowles
#100. It is not so much the grand dramas of our lives that transform us as it is
the tiny one-acts we produce in between.
Gina Greenlee
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