John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .

The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.

If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today.

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

Life is about now - some things are just too important to miss.

Only the present counts.

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.

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

There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

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

The right time is always right now.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

Each moment is magical, precious and complete and will never exist again. We forget that now is the moment we are in, that the next one isn't guaranteed. And if we are blessed with another moment, any joy, creativity or wisdom it brings will ensue from the way we live in the present one.

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

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

Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life.