Quotes About Now

All you really have...is now.

Today is the first and last day of forever.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

I can't wait for the day I learn to live in the now!

There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.

This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the events of all of our lives are going-on simultaneously. There is no beginning and there is no ending. There's only this moment.

There are two days in the year that you cannot do anything: YESTERDAY & TOMORROW: Only TODAY you can Be Happy, Smile, Dream, Love, Feel, & Be Thankful…

When will you begin to exist then? When will you begin to be here, to live? Regardless

Whatever is happening at this moment, that is your life. The future is not your life; it never arrives. What is actually here is always only this moment.

We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

The Buddha told his disciple Ananda to see impermanence, to see death with every breath. We must know death; we must die in order to live. What does that mean? To die is to come to the end of our doubts, all our questions, and just be here with the present reality. You can never die tomorrow; you must die now. Can you do it? If you can do it, you will know the peace of no more questions.

Do not wait for the future to be happy. You are happy now, or you are not.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

Not in imagined futures, Or in remembered pasts, But only here and only now Will you find a peace that lasts.

Live like tomorrow doesn't exist.

I think that even in this place we ought to live as if we had no wishes and no future, and just be our true selves.

It's too late to be ready.

The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.

As I ponder this, I don't believe my greeting committee said, "Oh no, he doesn't get to stay." They're still there at the gate. They're waiting. For them, time is not passing. Everything is in the eternal now—even if I can't put that into words. Even if ten more years pass, or thirty, in heaven it will be only an instant before I'm back there again.

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

Mark Bevir argues, "Democracy now seems less a means of expressing a common good and more a contest among factions or classes.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Stand fully in the now moment with gratitude, enthusiasm, openness, and readiness to respond to Life as it greets you.