John Dewey Quotes

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times.

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It’s good to have a big – picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you’re always living in the future, you’re never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

Every moment of your experience is the peak of life experience. This is where your powerful now is.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

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

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

Most humans live in the mindset that this moment is only important because it's getting them to the next one.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very 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.

NOW is All There is & the Future is Just Another Present Moment to Live when it Arrives

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment.

The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.

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.

The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

This is your here, this is your now, let it be magical!