Ann Voskamp Quotes

With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.

I vow to live fully in each moment.

I try to live in the moment, every moment.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

I have an intention to live each moment fully.

I try to just stay in the present moment as much as possible.

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.

To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times.

‎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.

We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.

We need to learn to live in the here and now; this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.

The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.

The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough.

As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.