17 Reminders To Cast Your Worries Aside And Live In The Moment

“Your awareness in the here and now creates worlds. It creates everything you experience. Pay attention to what you pay attention to. Feel good.”

— Ashlee Schultz, thoughtcatalog.com

“I attract to my life whatever I give my attention, energy and focus to, whether positive or negative.”

— Michael Losier, amazon.com

“What we think, we become.”

— Ashlee Schultz, thoughtcatalog.com

“See the things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come. Don’t fret and worry about them. Don’t think about your lack of them. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.”

— Robert Collier, amazon.com

“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”

— Alan W. Watts, books.google.com

“You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there. This is why you have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you because the present may be all you've got. And if there's more ahead then the present is where you can really shape your futu…”

— Amanda Howells, amazon.com

“If you live in the future, you’ll miss things, right here, right now, and you’ll regret it later.”

— Jessica Therrien, amazon.com

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda, books.google.com

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com

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

— Mother Teresa, books.google.com

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”

— Amit Ray, amazon.com

“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”

— George Harrison, books.google.com

“The only way you can ensure having a good future is by living a good present. That’s it. That’s the secret to getting exactly what you want out of life.”

— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com

“We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.”

— Ally Carter, amazon.com

“Perhaps it is not necessary to franticly complete a to-do list. Perhaps it is not necessary to overly focus on the future or even focus on the future at all. Perhaps it’s more important to live the moments, to look for the meaning in the simple day-to-day moments.”

— Monique Rainford-Bourne, thoughtcatalog.com

“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, amazon.com

“This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest…”

— Rumi, amazon.com