Ann Voskamp Quotes

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

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

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life - a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.

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.

Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don’t let life slip by unnoticed.

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

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

Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.

Stay present. You'll always have time to worry later on if you want to.

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

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

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.

If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

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

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

Only the present moment contains life.

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

I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I'm living right now.

To live in the present moment is a miracle.