Being in the Here and Now Quotes

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

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.

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.

I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

I'm not really the sort to reflect or look forward. I prefer concentrating on the now.

Accept the present moment without judgement.

Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.

Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

‎Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.

Now I don't put things in the boxes anymore. I'm just focusing on right now.

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

It's so easy to get caught up in the future and in the past.

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings.

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

I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

In life and in love, there is only that moment, the NOW. The only reality we know is what we experience this very second. Reality is not what has passed or what has yet to come into being. Grabbing hold of this simple idea makes life magical because it brings love alive.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment - what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough. Then no thinking, so each moment I can perceive everything just like this.

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.

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.