Present Moment Quotes

"Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life."

Kalidasa

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

"Forever is composed of nows."

Emily Dickinson

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."

Bil Keane

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have."

Eckhart Tolle

"The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own."

Charles Caleb Colton

"Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence."

Kalidasa

"Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well."

"We are so unwise that we wander about in times that are not ours."

Blaise Pascal

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"Forever – is composed of Nows."

Emily Dickinson

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

Oprah Winfrey

"Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is the true prosperity."

Eckhart Tolle

"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

Seneca

"Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself."

Paramahansa Yogananda

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

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."

"We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are."

Bill Watterson

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

Mother Teresa

“I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.”

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”

“I love the fact that tomorrow never comes. You can never wake up and say, "It's tomorrow." It's always today.”

“I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.”

“Confine yourself to the present.”