"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."
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"Being present means living without control and always having your needs met."
"Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be."
"When you’re living in the moment, you’re living in the moment; whatever that moment is, that’s your reality. Everything else is a myth."
"It's like, if this person is going to betray me or deceive me, they're going to do it regardless whether or not I'm texting him constantly or looking through him phone or being jealous. And once you realize that, then jealousy isn't a factor. You're just you, and you can live in the moment."
"The next message you need is always right where you are."
"If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now."
"Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession."
"The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work."
"The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now."
"If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time."
"Worrying won't prevent the worst outcome. I've learned to live in the moment, which is not my natural tendency. I've always thought that if I worried about something enough, it wouldn't happen. I forgot to worry about Parkinson's."
"Live for the moments you can't put into words"
"Live the moment for the moment."
"They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love."
"I try to live in the moment, but by the time I get there it's too late."
"This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for."
"Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent."
"Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry."
"Being must be felt. It can't be thought."