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Quotes About Now

This is not a dress rehearsal. This is It.
~ Tom Cunningham
Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
~ Martial
Now is the only time we own; give, love, toil with a will. And place no faith in tomorrow, for the clock may then be still.
~ Anonymous
Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.
~ Old Eskimo proverb
Life is only this place, this time, and these people right here and now.
~ Vincent Collins
Act-act in the living Present!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present.
~ Anonymous
The present is elastic to embrace infinity.
~ Louis Anspacher
The present is an eternal now.
~ Abraham Cowley
The present is the blocks with which we build.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The present is all you have for your certain possession.
~ Anonymous
One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.
~ D. H. Lawrence
He who lives in the present lives in eternity.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve.
~ Igor Stravinsky
It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
~ Andre Gide
J. C. F. von Schiller
~ Let us live today.
Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
~ Simone Weil
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.
~ Carl Sandburg
Yesterday has gone. Tomorrow may never come. There is only the miracle of this moment. Savor it. It is a gift.
~ Anonymous
When we have a world of only now, with no shadows of yesterdays or clouds of tomorrow, then saying what we can do will work.
~ Goldie Ivener
The present is the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
~ James Joyce
And if not now, when?
~ Talmud