Quotes About Present

Each moment is a place you've never been.

Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.

I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

No worry before its time.

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

Redeem the misspent time that's past, And live this day as 'twere thy last.

We haven't the time to take out time.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived—to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that—this doubtless is the right way to live. —HENRY JAMES

You got to live in the time you're living in. The past is the past, right

We long for Saturdays because that means books. We're like a lot of little children with a present. Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up. Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the wireless.

There were moments when I understood that there was nothing much I was going to understand or figure out. There was simply the present moment, awareness, impermanence, birdsong, love. There is no fixing this setup here. It seems broken and ruined at times, but it isn't: it's simply the nature of human life.

Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.

When you are on the knife's edge—when nobody knows exactly what is going to happen next, only that it will be worse—you take in today.