Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes

The living moment is everything.

And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.

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.

I'm about the present.

I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

Everyone wants to look to the future and into the past. I stay focused on now.

Only the present counts.

life is the moment we're living right now.

To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.

And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment.

The only time you'll ever have is now.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.

Life is only available in the present moment.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.

There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.

The present moment is all you ever have.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.