Quotes About Existence

People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don't you say the good "now" days? Isn't "now" the only time you're living?

The past is our very being.

This is not a dress rehearsal. This is It.

Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.

In the present, every day is a miracle.

Life is only this place, this time, and these people right here and now.

I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.

The present is an eternal now.

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

The present is all you have for your certain possession.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

It is now, and in this world, that we must live.

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 past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.