267 quotes found
“You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.”
“Do not manage as if you had ten thousand years before you. Look you death stands at your elbow make the most of your minute and be good for something while it is in your power.”
“And if not now when?”
“As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so.”
“When shall we live if not now?”
“We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent "here and now " without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us...”
“Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time.”
“Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.”
“Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.”
“The best preparation for a better life next year is a full complete harmonious joyous life this year.”
“Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.”
“The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow and when it comes it too is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow and so the cheat is prolonged even to the grave.”
“It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.”
“Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?”
“Defer not till tomorrow to be wise tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.”
“My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.”
“Today well lived will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.”
“Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.”
“We know nothing of tomorrow our business is to be good and happy today.”
“We are always beginning to live but are never living.”
