Some people dwell on their past, some other anxious about their future. But, why not to take care of the present moment and be grateful for your beautiful existence? Don’t suffer from your miserable past or excessively worry for your future, enjoy the moment, be present, appreciate every minute, and keep smiling. May these quotes inspire you to live in the present that way you can start up your dreams.
Quotes About Enjoying the Moment
If you are depressed, you are living in the past, if you are anxious, you are living in the future, if you are at peace, you are living in the present.
– Lao Tzu
If you’re always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you’re in? Slow down and enjoy the moment you’re in and live your life to the fullest.
– Nanette Mathews
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find eternity in each moment.
– Henry David Thoreau
Life is available only in the present moment. If you abandon the present moment you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
My past and my future depends on today.
– Trevor Hall
Every single moment is your life, so enjoy the moment to enjoy your life fully.
– Debasish Mridha
“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
– A.A. Milne
I always live in the present. The future I can’t know. The past I no longer have.
– Fernando Pessoa
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
Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.
– Cherokee Indian Proverb
Be happy and enjoy your sacred time on earth.
– Lailah Gifty Akita
To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle.
– Osho
The meeting of two eternities, the past and the future… is precisely the present moment.
– Henry David Thoreau
If you do not enjoy a moment, you lose it forever. If you enjoy it, it is yours forever.
– Debasish Mridha
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
– Alice Morse Earle
Remember then: there is only one time that is important – Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
– Leo Tolstoy
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”
– Andre Maurois
Enjoy today. It is one of the “good old days” you will miss in the future!
– Etta Sawyerr
Life is a journey, not a destination.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learn from the past to do better in the present so that you can succeed in the future.
– Jordan Lejuwaan
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
– Wayne Dyer
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
Plan strategically for a very fulfilling future, but don’t forget to enjoy the beautiful sight of this precious moment.
– Edmond Mbiaka
You can’t go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is…now.
– Jay Ashe
Living in the moment is being aware of the moment we are in. If our minds are in the past or future, we are not truly alive in the present.
– Satsuki Shibuya
The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.
– Wayne Dyer
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
– Abraham Maslow
No money can buy back the moment that is gone.
– Debasish Mridha
Life is dessert — too brief to hurry.
– Ann Voskamp
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.
– Dalai Lama
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
– Alan Watts
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
– Albert Einstein
I just go to office to enjoy myself ; work automatically happens.
– Jitendra Attra
We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.
– Bill Watterson
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
– Amit Ray
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
– Thich Nhat Hahn
There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.
– Robert Nathan
Awareness is simply seeing without trying to see the end.
– Abhijit Naskar
The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
– Lauren Kate
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
– Denis Waitley
Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.
– Deepak Chopra
Forever is composed of nows.
– Emily Dickinson
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
– Eckhart Tolle
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
– Eckhart Tolle
Don’t let the past steal your present.
– Cherralea Morgen
This is real freedom – the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.
– Deepak Chopra
Stress is the distance between where your thoughts are and where your life is happening.
– Dean Jackson
Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
– Eckhart Tolle
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
– Amit Ray
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
Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.
– Albert Einstein
Happiness, not in another place but this place… not for another hour, but this hour.
– Walt Whitman
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it.
– Eckhart Tolle
Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.
– Charles M
Eternity belongs to those who live in the present.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.
– Dale Carnegie
Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don’t miss it.
– Leo Buscaglia
What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear – and we must learn how to overcome fear.
– Brian Weiss
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
– Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is a choice, a repetitive one.
– Akilnathan Logeswaran
Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?
– Goldie Hawn
When you try to control everything, you enjoy nothing. Sometimes you just need to relax, breath, let go and live in the moment.
– Unknown
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
– Michel de Montaigne
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
– James Thurber
Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
– Eddie Cantor
Unlike man, a dog lives every moment and dies only once.
– Tapan Ghosh
The great science to live happily is to live in the present.
– Pythagoras
Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
– Mother Teresa
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
– Leonardo da Vinci
Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.
– Hans Christian Andersen
When you are measuring life, you are not living it…
– Mitch Albom
If you live in fear of the future because of what happened in your past, you’ll end up losing what you have in the present.
– Unknown
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
– Oprah Winfrey
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.
– Gordon B
Live in the moment—not just for the future moment.
– Debasish Mridha
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is to be present in the present. Gratefully.
– Maya Angelou
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
– Eckhart Tolle
We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today.
– Sydney Smith
Do what makes you happy, be with who makes you smile, laugh as much as you breathe, and love as long as you live.
– Rachel Ann Nunes
Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.
– Thomas Monson
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow.
– Jerry Spinelli
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
– Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
– Jim Rohn
The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of “Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait.”
– Robert Brault
Live in the present and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.
– Ida Scott Taylor