Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
—Jon Kabat-Zinn in Wherever You Go, There You Are
Rather than concentrating on what you should have done, concentrate on what you can do now.
—Rachel Van Dyken in Ruin
Even very recently, the elders could say [to the youths]: "You know, I have been young and you never have been old." But today's young people can reply: "You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be." . . . This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.
—Margaret Mead
You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost.
—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You
When you're traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
—William Least Heat Moon
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
—William James
Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?
—Byron Katie
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
—Robert Ingersoll
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
—H. L. Mencken
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
—H. L. Mencken
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
—Laurie Anderson