Life & Living: Live in the Moment Quotes

Explore reflections that celebrate presence, attentiveness, and the simple clarity of now. These quotes invite gentle focus, helping you pause, breathe, and notice what is meaningful without rushing past the small details that give each moment weight. Whether you seek calm, courage, or gratitude, this selection offers concise reminders to savor experience as it unfolds. Read slowly, share freely, and return when you want a refreshing reset, grounded guidance to balance ambition with ease, and to meet life with curiosity, openness, and care.

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"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time"

Jack London, Novelist

Jack London

"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"We do not remember days, we remember moments"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

Cesare Pavese

"Enjoy every sandwich"

Warren Zevon, Musician

Warren Zevon

"Each day provides its own gifts"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

Marcus Aurelius

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today"

James Dean, Actor

James Dean

"Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

Mattie Stepanek

"There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live"

Dalai Lama, Leader

Dalai Lama

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

Robert Brault, Philosopher

Robert Brault

"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"It's better to burn out than it is to rust"

Neil Young, Musician

Neil Young

"There is more to life than increasing its speed"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today"

Will Rogers, Actor

Will Rogers

"May you live all the days of your life"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

Jonathan Swift

"Life loves the liver of it"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"You are the music while the music lasts"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

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

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"Never say never. The things that you don't plan are the best. I'm a very spontaneous person"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

Lindsay Lohan

"In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

Albert Schweitzer

"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"I want to be spontaneous like a wild animal"

Giovanni Morassutti, Actor

Giovanni Morassutti

"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

Allen Ginsberg

"The good old days are now"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

Tom Clancy

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time"

Jack London, Novelist

Jack London

"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present"

Bil Keane, Cartoonist

Bil Keane

"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

Rabindranath Tagore

"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

Meister Eckhart

"Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

Jeremy Bentham

"We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these"

William Dean Howells, Author

William Dean Howells

"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive"

Brian Clough, Athlete

"One today is worth two tomorrows"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

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