Quotes About Present

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.

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.

There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

Tomorrow doesn't exist, yesterday is gone. The more I remind myself of that, the stronger I feel.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

The moment is everything. Don't think about tomorrow; don't think about yesterday: think about exactly what you're doing right now and live it and dance it and breath it and be it.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

Today is reality. Yesterday is history.

I might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.

Yesterday doesn't count. It is what you do today that counts. No amount of talking about yesterday is going to change it.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don't think about yesterday, and they don't think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.

I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it. I'm a positive guy. When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you're in because, when you improvise, you're in right now. You're not in yesterday or tomorrow - you're right in the moment.

I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.