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Life is a succession of moments.
To live each one is to succeed.

Corita Kent

   

This--this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the
fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty.  Those who
are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

Louis L'Amour

      
Begin doing what you want to do now.  We are not living in eternity.
We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand. . . and
melting like a snowflake.  Let us use it before it is too late.

Marie Beynon Ray


Every second is of infinite value.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
Each moment is magical, precious and complete and will never exist again.
We forget that now is the moment we are in, that the next one isn't guaranteed.
And if we are blessed with another moment, any joy, creativity or wisdom
it brings will ensue from the way we live in the present one.

Susan L. Taylor
   

On Arturo Toscanini's eightieth birthday, someone asked his son, Walter,
what his father ranked as his most important achievement.  The son replied,
"For him there can be no such thing.  Whatever he happens to be doing at
the moment is the biggest thing in his life-- whether it is conducting
a symphony or peeling an orange."

Ardis Whitman

  

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese

   
  
  

Hold to the now, the here,
through which all future plunges to the past.

James Joyce

  

The past is gone, and I don't know what's coming in the future.  It's obvious that if I want my life to be whole, to resonate with feeling and integrity and value and health, there's only one way I can influence the future:  by owning the present.  If I can relate to this moment with integrity, and then this moment with integrity, and then this moment with integrity, wakefully, then the sum of that is going to be very different over time, over mind moments that stretch out into what we call a life, than a life that is lived mostly on automatic pilot, where we are reacting and being mechanical and are therefore somewhat numb.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

   

I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

Hugh Prather

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

W. Somerset Maugham

  

   
Love the moment and the energy of the moment
will spread beyond all boundaries.

Corita Kent
  
  

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute
by minute, day by day, in all
the thousand small, uncaring ways.

Stephen Saint Vincent Benet

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end
in every step of the road, to live the greatest
number of good hours, is wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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But what minutes! Count them by sensation,
and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Benjamin Disraeli
  

It is privilege of living to be . . .
acutely, agonizingly conscious
of the moment that is always
present and always passing.

Marya Mannes

Our latest moment is always our
supreme moment.  Five minutes delay 
in dinner now is more important
than a great sorrow ten years gone.

Samuel Butler

  

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I have the happiness of the passing moment,
and what more can mortal ask?

George R. Gissing

  

My philosophy is that not
only are you responsible
for your life, but doing your
best at this moment
puts you in the best place
for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey
  
  

No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
But, grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here.

John Greenleaf Whittier

 

The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn
anything is in the present moment.  But we're continually missing
our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try;
If we don't, it doesn't matter, we'd better start to die.

Wystan Hugh Auden

 

Every person's life lies within the present, for the past is
spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Marcus Antonius

 
 

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.  So
our prospects brighten on the influx of greater thoughts.  We
should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took
advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which
confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and
did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities,
which we call doing our duty.  We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

Henry David Thoreau

 

Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky?
Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it?  No, we just enjoy it.
Each second, each minute of our lives can be like this.
Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine,
the presence of each other, even the sensation of our breathing.
We don't need to go to China to enjoy the blue sky.
We don't have to travel into the future to enjoy our breathing.
We can be in touch with these things right now.

Thich Nhat Hanh

  
  

To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die--to give of ourselves wholly to the
demands of the moment, so that we utterly "disappear."  Thoughts of past, present, or
future, of life and death, of this world and the next, are transcended in the superabundance
of the now.  Time and timelessness coalesce:  this is the moment of eternity.  Thus our
every act is a matter either of giving life or taking it away.  If we perform each act with
total absorption, we give life to our life.  If we do things half-heartedly, we kill that life.

Philip Kapleau

 

There is only the moment.  The now.  Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.
This does not mean you live for the moment.  It means you live in the moment.

Leo Buscaglia

   

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What we are talking about is learning to live in the present moment, in the now.
When you aren't distracted by your own negative thinking, when you don't allow
yourself to get lost in moments that are gone or yet to come, you are left with
this moment.  This moment--now--truly is the only moment you have.  It is beautiful
and special.  Life is simply a series of such moments to be experienced one right
after another.  If you attend to the moment you are in and stay connected to your
soul and remain happy, you will find that your heart is filled with positive feelings.

Sydney Banks

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Articles and book excerpts on now:

Bless Today:  It Will Never Come Again      Charlotte Davis Kasl
Living in the Moment      Susan L. Taylor

Look at Life through the Windshield      Patti LaBelle

Mindfulness of This Moment      Jon Kabat-Zinn

Your Hidden Potential      Ari Kiev

Living with the Heart of a Child      Joe Mazzella

Living in the Moment      Paul Bauer

The Precious Present      Spencer Johnson

A Psalm of Life      Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sprouting Seeds--the Roots of Self-Growth      Gary Barnes

Start Living in Prime Time      Denis Waitley

Start Today      Joe Mazzella

Three Wondrous Answers      Lev Tolstoy (retold by Thich Nhat Hanh)