Here and Now Quotes

Confine yourself to the present.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

I've found a way to live in the here and now.

If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now.

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.

Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.

Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.

By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.

Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

I've got so much going on in my day job. And I've been around politics enough to know all the swirl that's fit to print, and so I focus on the reality of the here and now.

Billy Graham is for the hereafter. I'm for the here and now.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything.

To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.

I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?