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20 Quotes That Will Help You Live For Today And Ultimately Find Happiness

Live in the moment, live in the breath. 
Brianna Wiest
September 21, 2016
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
— Amit Ray, OM Chanting and Meditation
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Motivational
“The only true thing is what's in front of you right now.”
— Ramona Ausubel, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty: A Novel
“Don't be so loyal to your mind; the mind is not loyal to You.”
— Bert McCoy, Echoes from the Prairie: A Collection of Short Memoirs
“The mind never has anything new to say-all it knows is of the past.”
— Bert McCoy, Echoes from the Prairie: A Collection of Short Memoirs
“Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment.”
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness: Living in the Moment Living in the Breath
“Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.”
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“Emotions are slowly killing us because we keep channeling them into things that don't exist – the future, the past. We don't tap into the astounding power of the present moment. We're too caught up in constructing what "should" happen or trying to understand what already did. And intellectually, everyone claims to know this – you know, live in the present, live in the moment. But it remains an annoying platitude because we haven't felt it yet.  You need to open your apertures to the power that's in front of you, not just keep throwing your old shit in the moment, tensing yourself up and sustaining the bullshit. Your power to create something completely new, and even miraculous, is resting right in front of you. Right now. When you feel it, you'll work with it. Get out of your head. It can show you the way, but it can't tell you to where.”
— Brianna Wiest, Power, Presentness
“Our work and educational institutions reinforce this preference for later over now throughout our lives. In school we focus on the ends — passing the semester, making the grade, or otherwise getting it all behind us — rather than the present-moment experience of actually learning. As employees, we want the work to be over as soon as it begins. Work culture is driven by quotas, billable hours, budgets, and Gantt charts — bottom lines of any sort. The value is always somewhere ahead of you, rather than here right now, in the room with you. We’re perpetually looking ahead to a payday or a weekend or some other kind of finish line. Virtually every day of our lives, we’re trained to lean towards something we don’t have, which essentially trains us to be dissatisfied with where we already are.”
— David Cain, This Will Never Happen Again
“The value is in the room. Each moment is pure potential. You either let your mind keep re-creating what it's known, or you start playing with the light.”
— Brianna Wiest
“How simple it is to acknowledge that all the worry in the world could not control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.”
— Jonathan Harnisch, Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography
“The whole present moment was a celebration; it always had been; all I needed was fresh eyes to see it.”
— Narissa Doumani, A Spacious LIfe
“When people ask me how I am, I tell them... 'I'm present.'”
— Matthew Donnelly, Winds of Time (Time Travel/Mail-Order Bride Romance, Book 3) (Time Travel/Mail-Order Brides Romance Series)
“Did you not enjoy the fragrant flowers on the trails edge,
The cool, crisp drink from the glistening pools at sunset,
The song birds that filled the time as you experienced all that I Am, and all that I Am not?
Did the dewy raindrops glisten on the gardens giving you a different memory of familiar landscapes?
Did the rainbow fill your skies and force a pause of wonder in the midst of your journey?”
— Bella Vespira, Bella Vespira Writings
“What is important is to understand the true boundaries of reality, not the probable boundaries of possible future events. Although boundary conditions operate on the future, they are probabilistic constraints, not absolutely determined fact. We assume that ten minutes hence, the room we are in will still exist. It is a boundary condition that will define the next ten minutes in our space/time coordinate. But we cannot know who will be in the room ten minutes hence; that is free to be determined. One may ask if we can really know that the room will exist at any future moment. This is where induction enters the picture, since in truth we cannot know with certainty. There is no absolutely rigorous way of establishing that. But we can make the inductive leap of faith that has to do with accumulated experience. We project that the existence of the room will remain a boundary condition, but in principle in the next ten minutes there could be an earthquake and this building might not be left standing. However, for that to happen, the boundary condition will have to be radically disrupted in some unexpected and improbable manner. What is so curious is that such a thing could occur.”
— Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
“The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life’s changes but also to the Divine Light within us and others. This is our choice. Although often perceived as a weakness, being open and surrendering to the experience of the present moment is our greatest strength. By authentically living Life in the Now, we submit to Divine guidance where we find the freedom to see everything equally and sacred in Truth.”
— Peter Santos, Everything I Wanted To Know About Spirituality But Didn't Know How To Ask: A Spiritual Seeker's Guidebook
“Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror.”
— Bert McCoy, Echoes from the Prairie: A Collection of Short Memoirs
“It occurred to me to look up and around at the stars in the clear sky, at the trees in the dark, at the half moon. I was missing them because I was caught in my head. I wasn't living right now. I was thinking to the future, to the past. I wasn't present. This is one of my greatest weaknesses, and one I have a greater realization of, only because I allowed some of my past to die so that my present could rush in to fill it.”
— Jennifer DeLucy, THe Light Series Box Set
“You don’t have to wait until you get to the top of a mountain, to enjoy the view.”
— Eleanor Brownn, Eleanor Brownn