Quotes About Now

I think the problem is that people spend so much time worrying about what might happen, what might go wrong, that they completely lose sight of the present.

We can't save it up or hoard it. We have to spend it second by second, in real time.

Happiness is the only good; the place to be happy is here; the time to be happy is now; the way to be happy is to help others.

The notion of "the present" refers to things that are close to us, not to anything that is far away. Our "present" does not extend throughout the universe. It is like a bubble around us.

What is the 'present'? We say that only the things of the present exist: the past no longer exists and the future doesn't exist yet. But in physics there is nothing that corresponds to the notion of the 'now'.

The expanded present is the set of events that are neither past nor future: it exists, just as there are human beings who are neither our descendants nor our forebears.

That's because every day is the only day,

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.

The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

Seize the hour.

Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

If you are afraid for your future, you don't have a present.

The worst time is always the present.

Forget the past and live the present hour.

Never let yesterday use up today.

There are two days about which nobody should ever worry, and these are yesterday and tomorrow.

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

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?