Appreciating the Moment Quotes

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

Every moment is an eternity in itself. Bliss is the present moment and each and everyone of us needs to understand this.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

If you pay close attention to each day, you will discover the magic moment.

Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

You don't really want to be always thinking about the future, always thinking about where you're heading for. You've got to think about how you're getting there.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.

For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present

It's so easy for 16-year-olds, including myself, to say, 'I just wish I were an adult.' But we can't wish our lives away. When we're adults, we'll say, 'I wish I were 16 again.'

Life is a celebration… I try to enjoy it as much as possible.

It does not mean that there will be no work if we turn life into a celebration. It is not that the wind does not work; it is always moving, blowing. It is not that the stars are idle; they are constantly moving. It is not that flowers don't do anything when they bloom; really, they do a lot. But for them, doing it is not that important; what is important is being.

When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future".

The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

I think it's really important to live in the moment.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.