The Now Quotes

“Happiness is a flow between a playful construction and a painful deconstruction, undulating from a hampering past into a liberating 'now,' escorting a meandering flood of twists and turns, caressing the velvet sand of dreamy beaches or smashing sometimes into the rocks of reality. ("New York at arm's length of desire")”
― Erik Pevernagie, Words of Wisdom: Selected and illustrated by his readers

“Fear may oust people into the dimness of disruption. Let us instead transcend darkness and create room for light to shine. Now is the moment, and the "now" is the stepping stone that allows us to forge ahead, with abundance of awareness and understanding, and without obtrusive egos. (“Fear of the white page”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“When we zoom freely into the ‘now’ and surrender readily to a liberating emptiness, we can be instantly overwhelmed by creative surging strength and a flash of enlightenment, expelling the cloudy specters blurring our minds. ("Quest for the real moment")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Insight helps us embrace life’s shifting dynamics, grounding us in the "now" by making us aware of the transient beauty of life. (“Love, Happiness, and Insight”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Happiness is not dependent on circumstances being exactly as we want them to be, or on ourselves being exactly as we’d like to be. Rather, happiness stems from loving ourselves and our lives exactly as they are, knowing that joy and pain, strength and weakness, glory and failure are all essential to the full human experience.”
― Kristin Neff

“Taoism as the "art of being in the world," for it deals with the present—ourselves. It is in us that God meets with Nature, and yesterday parts from to-morrow. The Present is the moving Infinity, the legitimate sphere of the Relative. Relativity seeks Adjustment; Adjustment is Art. The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
― Okakura Kakuzō, The Book of Tea

“If there's one thing I can say when it's my time to look back over my glorious life is I lived, bravely and fiercly in the chaos of it all.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I've come to believe that at different times our lives we are drawn to certain people for various reasons, mainly because that version of ourselves is connected to that version of them at that particular time. If you stick at it, work at it, you can grow in different directions together. Sometimes you get pulled apart, but I believe there is the right person, the one, for all the different versions of yourself. Gabriel and I lived in the now. Gerry and I aimed for forever. We got a fraction of forever. And an enjoyable now and a fraction of forever is always better than doing nothing.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“For people like us, looking towards the future can feel daunting. It can literally make us feel sick to the stomach and often induces panic attacks. Trust me, I’ve been there; I get it. That’s why the far-future should never be at the top of our “to-plan” list. It’s alright to have goals but to stress ourselves out with plans and options and worries of the future is a good way to drive us crazy. However, there is one time when I want you to consider the future. Always have something to look forward to.”
― S.R. Crawford, From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress

“Beauty brings us back to the now.”
― Allan G. Hunter, Gratitude and Beyond: Five Insights for a Fulfilled Life

“We choose our present moment. The choices we make here and now is what shape our reality tomorrow.”
― Jose Incer, Mastering Success: The Key to Self Empowerment and Higher Consciousnes

“Don't live for a happy ending.
Live for a happy now.”
― Jonathan Saccone Joly

“I try to live my life, as if I am 85 or 90 years old in retrospect. I was handsome and young still, I was becoming still on the journey. And some how I was able to relive it again. I try to have the gratitude and appreciation of hindsight now.
This has really helped me enjoy the moment the excitement of living and building a life rather than lamenting on the next milestone or accomplishment.
One day we will also say, I used to do this and I used to do that and I miss when it was like this or that or I looked like this. And back when my children were still young. So the here and now feels like a second chance or that I am reliving so every day feels exciting.”
― TIM STORRS