Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

Being aware in the moment of right now is just the most important thing. All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.

There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

I'm about the present.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Put out of your mind what is past and do not fret and worry about what has not yet come to pass.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

I just live day to day, in the present. And I try to just be that best version of myself every day - I don't look too far behind, I don't look too far forward.

For me, it's important to concentrate to the present and leave the past.

If you are always talking about the past, then you don't really have much in the present.