The Present Quotes
Enjoy yourself drink call the life you live today your own-but only that the rest belongs to chance.
You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year. ... Today should always be our most wonderful day.
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
Happy the man and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who secure within can say "Tomorrow do thy worst for I have lived today."
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
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.
Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve.
A life uncommanded now is uncom-manded a life unenjoyed now is unenjoyed a life not lived wisely now is not lived wisely.
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 a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is cash in hand. Spend It!
Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.
The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past and it is the future.
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.
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.
Reappraise the past reevaluate where we've been clarify where we are and predict or anticipate where we are headed.
Take in the ideas of the day drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
Yesterday is a cancelled check tomorrow is a promissory note today is the only cash you have-so spend it wisely.
Everyman's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with and the future is uncertain.
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well.
The only living life is in the past and future-the present is an interlude- strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.
The past cannot be regained although we can learn from it the future is not yet ours even though we must plan for it. ... Time is now. We have only today.
Look not mournfully into the past it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear but grateful take the good I find the best of now and here.
The present like a note in music is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
Be satisfied and pleased with what thou art Act cheerfully and well thy allotted part Enjoy the present hour be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish the approaches of the last.