Alan Dundes Quotes

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now.

I don't like to look into the future. I just want to stay in the present moment.

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

For a few years, I went down a path where I forgot to be in the moment and enjoy the moment.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

I like to stay in the moment.

I always try to enjoy the moment.

I like to live in the present.

I am a person who likes to be in the present.

You have to live in the present.

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.

Life is not only meant to be appreciated in retrospect ... There is something each day to embrace and cherish.

I live in the present moment.

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.