Quotes about now

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

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Rather than concentrating on what you should have done, concentrate on what you can do now.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Ruin

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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

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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

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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

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The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

—William James

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Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?

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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

—H. L. Mencken

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We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

—H. L. Mencken

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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

—Laurie Anderson

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