Anne Lamott Quotes

When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual.

The art of life is to live in the present moment

If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. I will always be dragged into the future, never able to live in the present moment.

I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.

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.

You take yourself out of the moment and knock yourself off balance when you judge and think about what you are doing, rather than experiencing and enjoying what you are doing.

I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

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.

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.

Today is plenty; right now is enough. Tomorrow will come in good time. Until it does, live the depth of now.

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

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

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

I always try to live in the moment.

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

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.

To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.

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

When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

I just live my life and try to be present.