Now Quotes

“Tomorrow is tomorrow. Over there is over there. And here and now is not a bad place and time to be, especially when so much of the unknown is beautiful.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“Daughter, why are you giving in to thoughts of fear?... Do not fear, I will not leave you alone. Do whatever you can in this matter, I will accomplish everything that is lacking in you. You know what is within your power to do, do that.”
― Faustina Kowalska

“Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

“TIME is an acronym I created for Today Is My Everything.”
― Richie Norton

“I whispered "Now! ... Now! ... Now!" ... over and over, faster and faster, into the wind as the world whipped by, trying to catch the moment when the word was what it is: when "now" became "NOW". But in the time it takes to say "now", "now" is already over. It's already "then".”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“I've spend enough time in the past, love. The dead need no tears. They don't rest easier for our vengeance, or our guilt. They'd want us to live. And life's about the now and the future, eh?”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Regret is about the past, anxiety is about the future, curiosity is about now.”
― Natalie M. Esparza, Spectacle: Discover a Vibrant Life through the Lens of Curiosity

“Such moments have been called “peak experiences” by the humanistic psychologist Dr. Abraham Maslow. Researching the common characteristics of persons having such experiences, he reports the following descriptive phrases: “He feels more integrated” [the two selves are one], “feels at one with the experience,” “is relatively egoless” [quiet mind], “feels at the peak of his powers,” “fully functioning,” “is in the groove,” “effortless,” “free of blocks, inhibitions, cautions, fears, doubts, controls, reservations, self-criticisms, brakes,” “he is spontaneous and more creative,” “is most here-now,” “is non-striving, non-needing, non-wishing … he just is.”
― W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

“Je mehr gemeinsame Vergangenheit eine Beziehung hat, umso gegenwärtiger musst du sein, wenn du nicht gezwungen werden willst, immer wieder diese Vergangenheit zu leben.”
― Eckhart Tolle, Eine Neue Erde

“Act now.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“This is another way of saying that “now” is nothing but a gathering place where the past, present, and future congeal, fester, and proliferate. To be a seer is to know that these three time-persons are a single Holy Trinity. The Holy comes not from a singular time-body, but from all three: Squatting in the gathering place. Breaking bread. Laughing.”
― Sondra Charbadze, The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language

“Decisions > Goals”
― Richie Norton

“Real-time relevancy gets real results, now”
― Richie Norton

“Zen says God is not extrinsic, it is intrinsic. It is not there, it is here. And God is not then, God is now — and there is no other time. There is no other space. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment God is available here & now.”
― A Mystic

“Here and now are the only place and time when one ever enjoys himself or accomplishes anything. Most of our suffering takes place when we allow our minds to imagine the future or mull over the past.”
― W. Timothy Gallwey

“Quieting the mind means less regretting. The mind is still when it is totally here and now in perfect oneness with the action and the actor. It is the purpose of the Inner Game to increase the frequency and the duration of these moments, quieting the mind by degrees and realizing thereby a continual expansion of our capacity to learn and perform.”
― W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

“Here is the little stone, smooth as an asphodel. It is at the beginning of everything. Flowers, tears (if you insist), departures, and struggles are for tomorrow.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays

“I have to serve someone, somehow. Now.”
― Brant Hansen, Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They're Missing Something

“Action implies act now.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Anxiety is fear about what may happen in the future, and it occurs only when the mind is imagining what the future may bring. But when your attention is on the here and now, the actions which need to be done in the present have their best chance of being successfully accomplished, and as a result the future will become the best possible present.”
― W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

“Fear lives in the future. These athletes live in the present—the here and now. Their participation is fun and rewarding.”
― Gary Mack, Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

“So much of performance is about staying in the now. Active words like “focus” and “execute” can help pull you into the moment to concentrate on the task at hand.”
― Kara Goucher, Strong: A Runner's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Becoming the Best Version of You

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― Tim Storrs

“Have you ever thought about accepting yourself as you are right here and now? That you are good enough—perfect in fact—just as you are?”
― Hillary Allen, Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds

“Now` never helps when Fate doesn't support it.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Priority means to precede and proceed.”
― Richie Norton

“There’s nothing much better than now.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“Don't stay in this now. You'll fall behind.”
― Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.

“What is happening is both reality and reality in the making.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We invite mindfulness when the doing is, or is at least treated as, the desired result.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana