Living in the moment is one of the most important things we can do with a life, and sometimes travel is one of the best ways to make sure that we take some time to do it. If only we can remember to keep that centered feeling with us at all times. Here are some awesome quotes about living in the moment.

1. “What day is it?”
It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
― A.A. Milne

2. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

3. “Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

4. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
― Henry David Thoreau

6. “You can’t go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is…now.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

7. “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

8. “Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry?

You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl

9. “Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”
― Albert Einstein

10. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.”
― Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown’s Little Book of Wisdom

11. “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

12. “We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.”
― Maya Angelou