Amy Grant Quotes

I live my life day by day.

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

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

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

You try to make the most of each day. I'm not big into setting real specific goals. I think, really, if you just focus on every day - and I know that's the oldest cliche in the book, but it really is true. Day 1 of camp means just as much as Day 17 of camp. If you really try to focus on each and every one of those days, long-term.

I just consciously try to enjoy the good things that are happening. And if it ended tomorrow, that would be fine.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

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

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

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

I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it. I'm a positive guy. When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

You have to live in the present; not on memories.

You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.

You can't look in the future and can't dwell on the past. It's all about the present and what you do each day.

If you are always talking about the past, then you don't really have much in the present.

There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

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.

What I like about that is it kind of puts you in your place. Don't count on being remembered. Just live now, you know?