Cherishing the Present Quotes

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

Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.

Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.

I remember the past, and I learn from it. I rejoice and celebrate in the present, and I re-imagine the future. Now is the moment that never ends.

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.

Before i knew the best part of my life had come ,it had gone.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.

Love what you have. And then go for what you want.

I want my flowers while I'm alive.

And we'll never be as young as we are right 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.

As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.

Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.

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

Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't.