Stan Brakhage Quotes

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

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

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.

The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it.

Only the present moment contains life.

Know that life can only be found in the present moment.

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it!

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 is only available in the present moment.

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

I'm about the present.

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

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that 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'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

The moment is everything. Don't think about tomorrow; don't think about yesterday: think about exactly what you're doing right now and live it and dance it and breath it and be it.

I've just learned to enjoy every moment for what it is and take it all in.

So much of what we do with our lives is worrying about the things we've done or the things we want to do instead of just being present in the now.

I have an intention to live each moment fully.

I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for it. You weren't able to enjoy it.' I want to be here, be now and be grateful.

I really know what it's like to work and live every moment now, and I'm really grateful for that.

I always try to live in the moment.

You just have to live today. And I think one of my New Year's resolutions is definitely trying to stop and live in the moment and cherish it.