Karen Kain Quotes

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . 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. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

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.

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

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.

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

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.

My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."

Some people believe that to find happiness, you should live each day of your life as if it's your last because that way you will appreciate every single moment you have. Other people believe that you should live each day as if it's your first because then every day can be the beginning of a new journey.

Take no moment for granted.

Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Life passes us by if all we do is focus on the future. Being present, for the present, is really what is important.

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.

For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.