28 Quotes About Live-in-the-here-and-now

The future is always unknown.Live your own life.Live in the moment.Live so well in the present, so that when tomorrow never comes, you may have no regrets.

-Lailah Gifty Akita

The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

-Francis Harold Cook

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

-Isaac Marion

When you are now and here, calm is everywhere.

-Abhijit Naskar

  • Author Jerry Spinelli
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    You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today that you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but you'll never know.

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You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today that you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but you'll never know.

-Jerry Spinelli

But you decide how you live your life in the meantime. You can hide fear. Or you can live life. - V

-Gayle Forman

Treasure yourself for being, not doing.

-Gina Greenlee

  • Author Edmund Morris
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    He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot or starve,kill or be killed,shelter or suffer,procreate or count for nothing-has clarified his thinking,purged him of politics and its constant search for compromise.

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He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot or starve,kill or be killed,shelter or suffer,procreate or count for nothing-has clarified his thinking,purged him of politics and its constant search for compromise.

-Edmund Morris

  • Author E.J. Patten
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    Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see thingsin the now, not as they were or will be, or as they might orshould be, but as they are, right now, in this moment. Theheart sees the now; the mind only sees the next. If you can’tlearn to see the now, you’ll never see what’s truly there, andthen where will you be?”“Trapped”“Precisely. But if you take care of the now, the future willwork out as it should.

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Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see thingsin the now, not as they were or will be, or as they might orshould be, but as they are, right now, in this moment. Theheart sees the now; the mind only sees the next. If you can’tlearn to see the now, you’ll never see what’s truly there, andthen where will you be?”“Trapped”“Precisely. But if you take care of the now, the future willwork out as it should.

-E.J. Patten

 

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