454 Quotes About Present-moment

How simple it is to acknowledge that all the worry in the world could not control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

Life is a dash. Pause in the present. Enjoy this moment.

Over the last week, if there's anything I've learned, it's that you're only who you choose to be. Every moment. The past is gone. Memories are no more solid than dreams. The only real thing, the only true thing, is the present. That's it.”-- “So the things we've done don't count?”“Of course they do. But we can decide how much. ​And we can decide what we want the present to be like. We can live it however we want.

Children become serious when they play. To regain that beautiful seriousness, you have to live in the present and take life as a play.

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)

Magic doesn't sweep you away; it gathers you up into the body of the present moment so thoroughly that all your explanations fall away: the ordinary, in all its plain and simple outrageousness, begins to shine -- to become luminously, impossibly so. Every facet of the world is awake, and you within it.

Take a tram ride today.
Recognise a dear friend in everyone around. 
Speak kindly to yourself.
It is only your thoughts that bring you fear.
You've been through a lot. 
There is perfect peace in this moment.

In old age, past haunts the present; memories replace the real life!

Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.