Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

I have an intention to live each moment fully.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

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.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

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

I just want to enjoy every moment and try to be present in the moment of whatever I'm doing at that time.

My focus is to try to appreciate the present moment more and more and more.

I live in today and take it slowly.

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

Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't let the past and the future interfere. Be in the present. That's what awareness is all about.

Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.

I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

This moment is your life. It is the process of living, the journey, that is life itself, and we often wish away our lives by focusing only on what tomorrow could, should, would bring.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.

That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.