Being In The Moment Quotes

“Of course, we can't visit every place or meet every person or do every job, yet most of what we'd feel in any life is still available. We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies. We just have to close our eyes and savour the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays. We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“The only thing that prevents us from being happy is thinking.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Anyone who recommends attention to the moment as a prescription for grateful wonder is only telling half the truth. To be happy one must pay attention, but to be unhappy one must also have paid attention.”
― Philip Lopate

“As you get to know what takes you away from life, you have more moments throughout your day where your mind, body and heart are all right here, and you discover a reverence for all moments, beings and things,. You will then give to Life one the most powerful gifts any human being can, the gift of your undivided attention.”
― Mary O'Malley

“At the first of the explosions, I was no longer seeing the fireworks, but as a superimposition of every time that I had sat on concrete and plastic and sand and wood and gazed at the sky the day before vacation ended. I lost this experience in how comingled it was with the past and with vague accounting of when next I would see fireworks.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot

“A fraction of a moment could mean anything — death, love, success. You find meaning in moments as the next moment is not yet found. When it’s found, it could be everything or nothing at all.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Rather than counting the stars
we haven't reached,
let's celebrate the constellations
we've already created.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“I was just there. I was the wave that gently lifted and danced in the sunlight. I was the sunlight that decided the colour blue was mundane and tinted the ocean with golden flecks in the morning and fiery red in the evening, as if upset at being replaced by the darkness. I was the darkness that fell like a blanket across the sea, as if the ocean and its creatures needed to be tucked in so that they could wake up and face the next day’s tribulations. I was the next day that washed away yesterday’s disappointments and brought with it infectious warmth and hope in the air.”
― Shabbeer Ahmed, Djinns & Kings: The Curse of Zoa

“Most people want something to happen all the time. That is because they are not at peace. A shepherd, on the other hand, although vigilant, must be supremely patient, and he must be at peace with himself. That is why some of the greatest teachers and prophets were shepherds. You are restless because you are not at peace with yourself. A fire is restless. It rages and spreads, burning everything in its path. Eventually, it burns out and dies down as fast as it had started. Be tranquil as a tree. When the wind blows, swing with it; when the birds sing, enjoy the song; watch the sheep eat contently at your feet.”
― Shabbeer Ahmed, Djinns & Kings: The Curse of Zoa