267 quotes found
“In the present every day is a miracle.”
“Life is only this place this time and these people right here and now.”
“There is one thing we can do and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can ... give all our attention to the op...”
“Are not my days few? Cease then and let me alone that I may take comfort a little Before I go to the place from which I shall not return.”
“We are here and it is now. Further than that all knowledge is moonshine.”
“A life uncommanded now is uncom-manded a life unenjoyed now is unenjoyed a life not lived wisely now is not lived wisely.”
“The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window and it ticks.”
“Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times it's the only time we've got.”
“It is now and in this world that we must live.”
“Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life.... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.”
“This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.”
“Yesterday is but a dream tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day for it is li...”
“Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it.”
“The past the present and the future are really one: they are today.”
“The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past and it is the future.”
“With the past I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.”
“Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.”
“The past is a bucket of ashes so live not in your yesterdays nor just for tomorrow but in the here and now.”
“Youth is the time of getting middle age of improving and old age of spending.”
“It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.”