Quotes About Now

If we let it, memory can make shadows of the now, as nothing can match the buttressed legends of our past.

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves today.

there was no such thing as past or future. There was no time that could be lost or won. The only thing that counted was action.

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

There is no life but this.

Don't pass it by--the immediate, the real, the only, the yours.

Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to the adjoining county, city or state, but to your immediate surroundings. Forget Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and all the others. Do your part to the best of your ability, regardless of the consequences. Above all, do not wait for the next man to follow suit.

Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.

The great incestuous wish is to flow on, one with time, to merge the great image of the beyond with the here and now. A fatuous, suicidal wish that is constipated by words and paralyzed by thought.

Reality is here and now, everywhere, gleaming through every reflection that meets the eye.... Everybody is a neurotic, down to the last man and woman. The healer, or the analyst, if you like, is only a super-neurotic.... To be cured we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another--it is a private affair which is best done collectively.

I like to have around me the things I like today, not the things I once liked many years ago.

I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

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.

I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.

Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.

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.

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

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

Today is reality. Yesterday is history.

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