Lorna Luft Quotes

This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

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.

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."

Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present

We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.

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

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.

You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Today is the only time we can possibly live.

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life.

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.

I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you’re in … because when you improvise you’re in right now. You’re not in yesterday or tomorrow—you’re right in the moment. Being in that moment really gives you a perspective of life that you never get at any other time as far as learning about your ego… You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Today is the only guarantee you get.