Sophie Kinsella Quotes

Don’t deprive yourself of the exciting journey your life can be when you relinquish the need to have goals and a blueprint.

I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.

Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don't think about yesterday, and they don't think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.

One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

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

People say to me, 'What are you going to be doing in five years?' The thing is, I don't care! It's what I'm doing today that matters.

I don't look any further than what's right in front of me.

Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.

I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings.... if I've learned one thing from all that'shappened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.

Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought. I can say that with great confidence. Emptiness is not what we thought. Neither is mindfulness or fear. Compassion––not what we thought. Love. Buddha nature. Courage. These are code words for things we don't know in our minds, but any of us could experience them. These are words that point to what life really is when we let things fall apart and let ourselves be nailed to the present moment.

Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.

We cannot build our lives around what might happen tomorrow.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that is likely to bring the most evolutionary results. If there is only one choice, take it. If there are no obvious choices, relax and accept the fact that for now, you cannot do anything.

We need to learn to live in the here and now; this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.

I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.

I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

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

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

The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.