Tracy Chapman Quotes

I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.

I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.

Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with his smile, if you are not really there - thinking about the future or the past, or preoccupied with other problems - then the child is not really there for you. The technique of being alive is to go back to yourself in order for the child to appear like a marvellous reality. Then you can see him smile and you can embrace him in your arms.

If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love.

The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

I am only at home in the present.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

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.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.

I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life.

With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

It is just living life intentionally - that is what I want instead of just existing.

I try to live in the moment and not overthink things because then you start putting yourself in situations that you don't want to be in pressure-wise.

I've always said I live in the present, and I build for the future.

I always try to live in the moment.

You have to live in the present, I think.