David Levithan Quotes

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.

I live in the present.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with his smile, if you are not really there - thinking about the future or the past, or preoccupied with other problems - then the child is not really there for you. The technique of being alive is to go back to yourself in order for the child to appear like a marvellous reality. Then you can see him smile and you can embrace him in your arms.

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't let the past and the future interfere. Be in the present. That's what awareness is all about.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you are. Intelligence is the capacity to be here-now, to be in this moment and nowhere else. Then you are awake.

Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

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.

I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

I look at what's in front of me. I concentrate on that and then hopefully move on.

If you're living strictly for the future or living in the past, it can make your partner feel neglected. Make yourself focus on the moment you're in.

I try to take each moment at a time.

I like to be present; I like to be in the now. The way life has shaped up, it is difficult, you know, with mobile phones taking you to another time and space all the time. So it's always a battle to stay in the moment. But according to me, it's a better way to be.