We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.Tara Stiles
People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.Thich Nhat Hanh
When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen.Ernest Hemingway
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.Jack Kerouac
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.Mortimer Adler
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.Dian Fossey
The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.Alice Morse Earle
Don't focus on what's wrong. Things may not be perfect, but be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day. Live each day like it could be your last.Joel Osteen
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.Christopher Paolini
Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.Luke the Evangelist
Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.Robert Greene
Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.Eddie Cantor
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every dayDeepak Chopra
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.Roy T. Bennett
In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.Carl Honore
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.George Horace Lorimer
There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything.Ross Gay
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.Earl Nightingale
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.Eckhart Tolle
You never know the plan. You never know what's going to happen. We are not even promised tomorrow. I just try to focus on one day at a time.Morgan Wallen
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.Aleister Crowley
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.Greg Anderson
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.Jon Kabat-Zinn
I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.Brene Brown