Laura Riding Quotes

No matter what happens, it’s always now.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

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.

The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

Only the present moment contains life.

Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

Accept the fact that you'll never get it all done, and begin to live more fully in the only moment you have ... Now.

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.

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.

...because where we are is always the most important place.

I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.

The moment is everything. Don't think about tomorrow; don't think about yesterday: think about exactly what you're doing right now and live it and dance it and breath it and be it.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

Only the present counts.

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.

When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.

life is the moment we're living right now.

All you really have... is now.

If we know that we are now at the point where we have always wanted to be, we will be there. . . because we are never there but always here, now!

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

You must live fully in the now to make your dreams come true.