Natalie Goldberg Quotes

All you really have... is now.

And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment.

The only time you'll ever have is now.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

Today is the only time we can possibly live.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

Now is the only thing that exists.

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

life is the moment we're living right now.

Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

minutes weren't given you to save but to spend. This is yours - now. Stop and live it.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.

We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.

The only thing you ever have is now.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.