Enjoying the Moment Quotes

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.

You know, just sometimes, in between the first cigarette with coffee in the morning to that four hundredth glass of cornershop piss at 3am, you do sometimes look at yourself and think...This is fantastic. I'm in heaven.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.

I watch the beauty for as long as I can, then turn and face the rest of it.

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

I like to do nothing.

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

Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.

Birthdays are about doing something fun and interesting.

I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they're just kickin' it.

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.

All in all, it's been a wonderful, wonderful ride. I don't plan on stopping anytime soon.

Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long.

I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.

Happiness is NOW! It isn't tomorrow. It isn't yesterday. Happiness is like a morning glory: Yesterday's won't bloom again; tomorrow's hasn't opened yet. Only today's flower can be enjoyed today. Be happy this very moment, and you'll learn how to be happy always.

I guess my perfect day would be relaxing with my wife somewhere peaceful and secluded, or just lounging on the couch and watching TV.

Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.