Appreciating the Present Quotes

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

That’s why it is important to enjoy the journey not just the destination. In this world, we will never arrive at a place where everything is perfect and we have no more challenges. As admirable as setting goals and reaching them maybe, you can’t get so focused on accomplishing your goals that you make the mistake of not enjoying where you are right now.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

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.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

You're gonna miss this, you're gonna want this back. You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast. These are some good times, so take a good look around. You may not know it now, but you're gonna miss this.

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.