Gloria Steinem Quotes

People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.

If I had let myself off the hook in college, I could have enjoyed myself a lot more. Knowing that I can't have those years back, I have learned to get the most out of living in the now.

I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that's interesting... I've been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of 'em... I have to be very honest: There's not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don't.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - now is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.

I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.

We're never gonna move forward if we can't let go of things, especially things that don't happen to people today.

In the end the only thing that you can have on your side is time. The only way to gain time is by living it. And if I live expending my energy worrying about other people's perceptions, then I'm missing my moment.

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.

I don't really memorize every little thing I have to do because then I start to think about it too much! I like to keep it in the here and now and not what's coming up.

You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.

I don't remember yesterday. I pretty much live in the moment.

Being more mature now, I've managed to make peace with my past, as it's making peace with me. Certainly there's a mutual gain for reflecting on both phases of my life, and although I consider the here and now perhaps to be more important, there are still many people who appreciate my past ephemeral stages and the lessons they represent.

Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.

I think the most well-adjusted people live in the present with an eye toward the future - I'm not among those.

Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.

Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.

You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.