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Quotes About Present

who wants to be foretold the weather?  It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand. 
~ Jerome K. Jerome
It is said that kids have no use for the word 'then'. It is said that only 'now' and 'this minute' count with kids. It is said that kids believe time began the day they were born. How sad if this were true. It would mean kids believe they live on a tiny, isolated island in time. It would mean that when they look back, they fail to see the fascinating human adventure that led up to that day when they were born. It would mean that when they look back, they see...nothing.
~ Unknown
You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you'll never know.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!
~ Jerry Spinelli
Live today like there's no tomorrow!
~ Jerry Spinelli
Hari ini memanggil-manggilmu, mencoba mendapatkan perhatianmu, tapi kau terpaku pada hari esok dan hari ini pun berlalu tetes demi tetes seperti air di dalam talang.
~ Jerry Spinelli
No When. No Then. Only Now.
~ Jerry Spinelli
You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today that you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but you'll never know.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you're doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out
~ Jerry Spinelli
can forever have a now?)
~ Jerry Spinelli
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today.
~ Jerry Spinelli
You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today that you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but now you'll never know.
~ Jerry Spinelli
You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today that you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday.
~ Jerry Spinelli
It's better to live in the present, pumpkin. That's where the good stuff is.
~ Jess Lourey
And on and on it goes, in a thousand directions, everything occurring at once, in a great storm of the present, of now - all those lovely wrecked lives.
~ Jess Walter
You have the here and now. You have a future. Deal with the past so you can stop looking back. It's just the pain.
~ Jessica Park
But then I remind myself that life is really just about one moment at a time. To not think about two years from now, but to think about right now. Two years from now will figure itself out.
~ Jessica Simpson
She turns on her laptop, raises her spectacles to her face. She reads the day's headlines. But they might be from any day. A click can take her from breaking news to articles archived years ago. At every moment the past is there, appended to the present. It's a version of Bela's definition, in childhood, of yesterday.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.
~ John Masefield
I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.
~ Louis C. K.
Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work
~ Nora Roberts