“Doing nothing often leads to the very best something.”— Tom McCarthy, Alex Ross Perry, Allison Schroeder, Greg Brooker, Mark Steven Johnson, Winnie the Pooh, Jim Cummings, imdb.com
“All we have is this moment, right here, right now. The future is just a fucking concept that we use to avoid being alive today. So be here... now.”— Alan Ball, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com
“When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. We've sent mechanisms out there, and they haven't found anything. They've found different colors of sand, and rings, and gases, but nobody's shown me anything that makes me feel secure in what happens afterwards. All I really beli…”— Eddie Vedder, rollingstone.com
“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.”— Lao Tzu, amazon.com
“The way I see it, what you've got to do is think of now, this moment. If you're analyzing the past, or anticipating too far into the future, you don't really concentrate on what you're doing in this moment, and that's the most important thing. Right now! Right now is the most important moment in you…”— Danny DeVito, theguardian.com
“If everybody had a time machine and they can hop in that machine and go back a couple of hours, a couple of seconds, they would do it. But we're living right now.”— Sean Taylor, great-quotes.com
“I once saw this thing on TV with people who are terminally ill. And they all believed the secret of life is just to live every moment.”— Larry David, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com
“I'm usually torn between regretting what I did ten minutes ago and fearing what's gonna happen in ten years, so being in the moment is not my forte.”— Whitney Cummings, amazon.com
“Your desires are yours to create. The circumstances for how those creations come into your life are the workings of the universe. Do not worry about them. Instead, think only of your intended end result, because that is what you’ll experience.”— Ashlee Schultz, thoughtcatalog.com
“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
“Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com
“The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, no…”— T. S. Eliot, 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