It’s easy to get wrapped up in the planning and anticipation of future events, routines and travels, but it’s also important to take a step back and enjoy the moment. These quotes about enjoying the moment will help you appreciate all the good times that come with working, traveling and exploring. From appreciating the natural beauty around you to enjoying simple moments with friends and family, these will remind you to slow down and savor each and every moment of your day. So sit back, relax, and enjoy these inspiring words about living in the present!

Quotes About Enjoying The Moment

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Paulo Coelho

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Don Miguel Ruiz

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Denis Waitley

What fools call “wasting time” is most often the best investment.

Nassim Taleb

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Jean-Paul Sartre

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. 

Hunter S. Thompson

We never remember days, only moments.

Cesare Pavese

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Miller

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Corita Kent

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Kurt Vonnegut

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Barbara De Angelis

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

Orhan Pamuk

While we wait for life, life passes.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.

Orson Welles

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Maya Angelou

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Richard Bach

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Carl Jung

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Swami Vivekananda

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Rumi

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Eckhart Tolle

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Thornton Wilder

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

James Baldwin

I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.

Louie Schwartzberg

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Mahatma Gandhi

I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing i wanted to do.

Georgia O’Keeffe

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

Don’t wait for the perfect moment, take the moment, and make it perfect.

Zoey Sayward

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Zig Ziglar

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

Yoko Ono

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

Corita Kent

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

Gore Vidal

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.

Viktor E. Frankl

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

Herodotus

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.

Eckhart Tolle

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Abraham Maslow

Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there’s a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I’m no longer alone.

Edward Snowden

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Eckhart Tolle

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Tennessee Williams

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.

Marissa Mayer

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Paul Auster

Remember then: there is only one time that is important – Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

Leo Tolstoy

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Henry David Thoreau

It’s a moment that I’m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

Andrew Wyeth

Each second that we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and never will be again.

Pablo Casals

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Erich Fromm

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

Cavett Robert

To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

John Locke

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough – there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

Robert Frank

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Joyce Meyer

This moment contains all moments.

C.S. Lewis

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own ‘acres of diamonds.’

Earl Nightingale

There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment’s thought to anything, and comprehend everything. ‘Blessed hands’ is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them.

Sholem Aleichem

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Friedrich Schiller

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

Wayne Dyer

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Rose Kennedy

Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but sipping the nectar of the moment.

Amit Ray

Remember the sole life which one can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

Marcus Aurelius

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Confucius

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

Shakti Gawain

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

J.K. Rowling

Every situation— nay, every moment— is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Goethe

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Douglas Adams

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

Emmet Fox

We make patterns, we share moments.

Jenny Downham

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Voltaire

We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.

Anais Nin

Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.

Ramana Maharshi

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Soren Kierkegaard

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Abraham Maslow

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.

Susan Sontag

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

Kehinde Wiley

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

The moment of change is the only poem.

Adrienne Rich

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Hermann Hesse

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

Steven Pinker

Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

Sam Harris

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, ‘Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.’

Paul Theroux

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Chanakya

Each day provides its own gifts.

Marcus Aurelius

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Parting Words

As you go about your day, take a moment to reflect on these quotes about living in the moment. Each one has something special to offer, and we hope that they will inspire you to appreciate life’s simple pleasures and live more mindfully.

What’s your favorite quote? We would love to hear from you in the comments below.

P.S. You might also like these related quote collections:

• Quotes About Simplicity
• Quotes About Minimalism
• Quotes About Simplifying Your Life
• Quotes About Self Actualization
• Quotes About Moments

Originally Published: November 3, 2022

  Lima, Peru

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