Mother Teresa Quotes

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.

I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

I really - I try not to look ahead too far into the future and really just appreciate the here and now.

Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

Be generous with your time and money - it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love - and this frequently means tuning out work completely. And drive slow in parking lots.

I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.

I've found a way to live in the here and now.

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.

If you meditate, meditation is so beautiful, who bothers about the result? And if you bother about the result, meditation is not possible. This result oriented mind is the only barrier, the only block. There are not many blocks, the only block is that of the result oriented mind: never here-now, always somewhere else thinking of the result; while making love, thinking about the result.

Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.

The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time.

Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.

No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

Knowledge means being in the place where we are put.

Instead of giving your children more things, give them more time.

How I thrive is very simple. My son brought my perspective back to focusing on and appreciating the simple things in life. It's about just being with my family - whether that's waking up in bed next to my husband under the comforter and just hugging or walking down the street and holding my son's hand.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Being happy in general makes life so much easier.