Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose--if we dare.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

Yoga changed my life. I go between 4 and 6 times a week. It's incredibly grounding and an intense level of focus.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

My life is going at the speed of light, so it's a lot of just trying... to be present in each moment... Giving each situation and each part of life that space and making sure that it's sacred in every aspect.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.

There's something to be said about living in the present moment. In cooking, you're allowing your mind to just focus on the task at hand, and you're able to escape and put your mind at rest. That's why it becomes meditative.

The single guiding principle that I try to follow, assuming blindly that the rest will fall into place, is to operate squarely in the present. I think it's one of the most difficult things for anyone to do.

I keep my focus on the stuff that matters to me, and that is pretty much how I live my life.

I try to take each moment at a time.

I live in the present.

Take each day as it comes and focus on the present moment.

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

I just live my life and try to be present.

Walk, with awareness. Eat, with awareness. Breathe, with awareness.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life.

No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now.