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Live Now Quotes

    “Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, Savor

      “Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life – a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, Savor

        “Peace can be made only by those who are peaceful, and love can be shown only by those who love. No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” ~ Alan Watts, The Book

          “For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond.” ~ Alan Watts, The Book

            “Often we’re rushing to get somewhere, trying to make progress towards a goal, moving, moving. But where are we going? Will we be happier when we get there? Is that place better than where we already are? I’ve found that no, it’s not any better. Where we already are is just as great. This moment is just as good as wherever we’re rushing off to. We’ve already arrived. So I smile, and appreciate the moment, and this makes the current task not a stepping stone to something better, but something great in and of itself.” ~ Leo Babauta, Zen Habits

              “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” ~ Omar Khayyan

                “Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity…” ~ Gilda Radner

                  “I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.” ~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

                  Take Each Day As It Comes

                    Write it on your heart
                    that every day is the best day in the year.
                    He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
                    who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

                    Finish every day and be done with it.
                    You have done what you could.
                    Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
                    Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
                    begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
                    to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

                    This new day is too dear,
                    with its hopes and invitations,
                    to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

                    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                      “We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, ‘here and now’ without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.” ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset

                        "We have been born once and there can be no second birth.  For all eternity we shall no longer be.  But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.  We waste away our lives in delaying, and each of us dies without having enjoyed leisure." ~ Epicurus