Natalie Goldberg Quotes

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

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

I like to live in the present.

Breathe when you breathe. Walk where you walk. Talk when you talk. Cry when you cry. Die when you die. Let go when you let go.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

I just live in the moment. Or try to.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.

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.

I think it's really important to live 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.

Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

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 try to take each moment at a time.

I've always tried to live in the moment.

I live in the present.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.

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

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

When you are here, you are here. When you are gone, you are gone. It isn't a problem to be gone, so long as you are really here when you're here.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

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.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.