In The Moment Quotes

“Giving up the obsession of sign-values and the subservient fascination of the social pyramid, allows us to set priorities in life, find out the core of our true self and appreciate being “in” the moment. ("Keeping up with the Joneses" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Live today facing forward—with your back on yesterday, your eyes on tomorrow, and your head and heart in the moment.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Being present is being connected to All Things.”
― S. Kelley Harrell

“No, I don't like you, I just thought you were cute enough to kiss you.”
― Frank Ocean

“Intuition is the art of the moment. Intuition is always in the moment, in the here and now. While the intellect always moves like the pendulum of a clock between the memories of the past and the fantasies of the future, intuition is always in the moment, always in the here and now. The more we develop our inner being, the inner source of love and truth, the inner quality of being here and now, the more we also have access to our intuition.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

“In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Those who live to make light,
are all connected
by the web of light we create together ..
We have only this moment to spin our section,
our story, our song ...
but the web itself lives on.”
― Shellen Lubin

“On your darkest days do not try to see the end of the tunnel by looking far ahead. Focus only on where you are right now. Then carefully take one step at a time, by placing just one foot in front of the other. Before you know it, you will turn that corner.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“You're sweet," I said.
"Sweet on you."
I groaned at the cheesiness of that line, giving him a playful swat. But the truth was that it wormed its way into my heart regardless. It made me dream, for one night at least, of something I hadn't even dared to as a young girl lying in this same bed--- that all the pink heart valentine, sappy love song stuff might be real, and be something I could have.”
― Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

“I'm going to kiss you if that's okay," he said.
"It won't be our first kiss," she said.
"No," he said. "I let one slip at the restaurant. I thought about apologizing to you for that, but I didn't feel sorry." And with that, he kissed her. One very soft, very sweet kiss. The kiss was fleeting but it left a big ache for more in its wake. Adrienne gasped, taking in the cool sea air, and then Thatcher kissed her again. Even softer, even shorter. The third time, he stayed. They were kissing. His mouth opened and Adrienne tasted his tongue, sweet and tangy like the lime in his drink. She felt like she was going to burst apart into eighty-two pieces of desire. Like the best lovers, Thatcher moved slowly- for right now, on the blanket, it was only about the kissing. Not since high school had kissing been this intense. It went on and on. They stopped to look at each other. Adrienne ran her fingertips over his pale eyebrows, she cupped his neck inside the collar of his shirt. He touched her ears and kissed the corners of her eyes, and Adrienne thought about how she had come right out with the truth about her mother at dinner and how unusual that was. And just as she began to worry that there was something different this time, something better, of a finer quality than the other relationships she had found herself in, she and Thatcher started kissing again, and the starting again was even sweeter.
Yes, Adrienne thought. Something was different this time.
How much time passed? An hour? Two? Of lying on the blanket kissing Thatcher Smith, the man who had handed her a new life on this island. Adrienne felt herself drifting to sleep, she felt him kiss her eyelids closed-”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Blue Bistro

“All I can say is that I felt alive and didn’t want to think about anything else besides this moment.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“Is it ok if we stay here,
exactly here, for just a moment
more? Can you press your
nose into my neck,
can I wrap my arms around
longer, tighter, can I
hold you here? There's more
to handle, more life
left to live, to deal with,
to endure, but for now
can we stay, if only
a moment
more?”
― Tyler Knott Gregson

“Nature happens, but sometimes, if you're not told just how special it is, you take it for granted. The same can be true with people.”
― Julieanne O'Connor

“Those who recommended mindfulness had it right. ‘Be in the moment’ made complete sense. No past, no future, no worries. Just the here and now, Lyall by her side.”
― Rosemary Gemmell, Highcrag

“I sipped my hot, sweet, milky tea, feeling myself settle, center. I couldn't possibly stay in a state of high emotion, and there was a lot to get through in the next few days or weeks. Right this minute, I could enjoy this table in a bakery in a small English village. The place was clearing out, and the chelsea bun beckoned. It was a coil of pastry laced with currants and a hint of lemon zest, quite sweet. I gave it the attention it deserved, since a person couldn't be pigging out on pastries and eggs and bacon all the time. Not me, anyway. Unlike my slender mother, I was built of rounder stuff, and I hadn't been able to walk as much as was my habit.
In the meantime, the tea was excellent, served in a sturdy silver pot with a mug that didn't seem to match any other mug on the tables. The room smelled of yeast and coffee and cinnamon and the perfume of a woman who had walked by. Light classical music played quietly. From the kitchen came voices engaged in the production of all the goods in the case. A rich sense of well-being spread through me, and I realized that my leg didn't hurt at all.”
― Barbara O'Neal, The Art of Inheriting Secrets

“Surrender your fears and anxieties and projections of the future, and enjoy being fully in the present moment, immersed in yourself.”
― Andrew Lutts, How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness

“It was salty, it was sweet, it was fishy, it was liquor, it was like a deep breath of seaweedy air and a mouthful of sea spray all at once. He bit once, involuntarily, and felt the flavors in his mouth swell and burst like a wave. Before he knew what he had done he had swallowed, and then there was another sensation; another flavor, as the soft shapeless mass wriggled past the back of his throat, leaving a faint, cool aftertaste of brine.
He felt a sudden sense that nothing would be the same again. Eve in her garden had bitten an apple. James had eaten an oyster, sitting outside a tiny restaurant overlooking the sea by Sorrento. His undernourished heart swelled in the Italian sunshine like a ripening fig and he laughed out loud. With a great flood of gratitude he realized that he was having the time of his life.”
― Anthony Capella, The Wedding Officer

“It took me over three decades to realize you're not supposed to think about paintings, flowers, or God, you're supposed to merge with them.”
― Pete Holmes, Comedy Sex God

“Sometimes you get so jazzed on the moment you can actually hear the universe sing, as you swing from life’s high notes and hit the low notes equally, improvising artistically without missing a beat or hanging on like a leech, leaving each passing moment to zone in on the texture of the next melodic tones life continually brings‬.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“I’m sure that if I stay in this business I’ll one day think of a dirtier trick, but one’s hard to imagine now.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“Just before she passes the harbor the sun begins to swoop down the sky, piercing holes in the clouds and forming columns of light. "Our Lord's fingers"- she suddenly recalls her mother's name for the slender rays that pierced through gray skies and reinvigorated the earth after soggy afternoons of rain. The columns melt as they reach the water, dissolving into a quivering glitter. It grows dark around her as the light is sucked into the sea; patches of pink and orange dance a few last, passionate steps across the sky. Maya remains standing as the dance keeps twirling inside her. How lovely just to stand here and let herself be overwhelmed, to let the lyrics fade and surrender to the melody.”
― Anne Østby, Pieces of Happiness

“Take control of your present and your future is secured.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace

“Maybe each day is the chance to answer the big question “what am I going to do with my life?” in a lot of little ways”
― Tidalist Instagram

“Be in the moment but think bigger than how you feel in the moment. Never allow your ego, selfishness, or pride to cause you to think you are bigger than the program. Don’t let your ego, selfishness, or pride cut your legacy short.”
― Wallace Miles, UNDERR8TED: The Route That Caught an NFL Dream

“It is a field as big as a football stadium carpeted every inch with bright-red poppies. The red is like the kind of color that you see only in oversaturated photos, the kind that doesn't seem to truly exist in real life. Thousands and thousands of poppies stretch out in front of us, one right after the other, as though if you squinted, it would look like a giant red blanket had been laid on top of thousands of gangly green weeds. Dense olive trees line the edges of the field, and behind them, sloping green hills take over the skyline against a cloudless blue sky.
I bend down and pick up a poppy, its inky-black center surrounded by delicate red petals clustered and fanning out. It is all so dreamy.”
― Ali Rosen, Recipe for Second Chances

“Some of my best ideas come in the moment. And I did get a bath.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“When we practice being in the true present moment we bring ourselves into ever-increasing contact with our pure, native consciousness and awareness - this provides us with countless benefits and blessings:”
― Eric Bjarnson Ph.D., Some Universals, Vol. 2: Intention and Attention

“Knowing we can't keep what we have can be hard to swallow. But in the knowing... we can cherish it insanely so much more while it's here.”
― Julieanne O'Connor

“I’m not really here. I am physically, but metaphorically I am not. I just exist sometimes. Occasionally I’m present, but majority of times I’m not. I stand. I hold in place. Periodically I sit. Sometimes you see my eyes drifting. I’m not wondering. I’m wandering. I’m seeking. I’m observing. I’m listening to the wind. I’m grasping the moment. I’m grasping time. I’m feeling this. I’m trying to understand what this is. I’m not here nor there, but elsewhere in between the hologram.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“And I wonder if the moment I die will know it’s the moment I die.”
― Dominic Riccitello