Sarah Dessen Quotes

You take yourself out of the moment and knock yourself off balance when you judge and think about what you are doing, rather than experiencing and enjoying what you are doing.

I've stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking what's going to happen tomorrow. What's happening today, this minute, is what I care about.

Here it is - right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you're in because, when you improvise, you're in right now. You're not in yesterday or tomorrow - you're right in the moment.

I live in the present; there is nothing more important than that.

I like to live in the present.

You have to live in the present, I think.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

It's about feeling alive in the moment because your adrenaline is going, your thinking about that present moment, you're not somewhere else, you're not thinking about what's going to happen 10 minutes from now, and that's the reason why I love fighting, it's when I'm in there. I feel free, I feel like there's no other place I want t be. I can't even think of anything beyond that second. That's why I'm drawn to the fight, because I love the presence of it, where it brings me mentally, it's the purest thing for me.

Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.

Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it.

We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.

When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge.