Quotes About Now

If you're going to start a new life, you might as well start it NOW.

If you're going to start a new life, you might as well start it NOW.

Don't ask me anything about the future," he said miserably. "I don't know anything. Be with me now, will you, no matter what it is?" And she took him in her arms.

Not long, my duckie

If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

Shut out the yesterdays which have lighted fools the way to dusty death…. The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past…. The future is today…. There is no tomorrow. The day of man's salvation is now.

To live in the past and future is easy. To live in the present is like threading a needle.

There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

Nunca hubo más comienzo que ahora, ni más juventud o vejez que hay ahora; y nunca habrá más perfección que hay ahora, ni más cielo ni infierno que hay ahora.

Romanticism yearns for deliverance from the cross of the Here and Now: it is willing to face anything but the facts.

Everything I need now is here

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert. While reading a book, notice where your thoughts are. While on vacation, be there instead of thinking about what should have been done and what has to be done when returning home. Don't let the elusive present moment get used up by thoughts that aren't in the here and now. There

Past—present—future in a timeless dimension are simply all occurring at the same time, even if our time-based dimension sees it otherwise.

Release the what-ifs and all of your goals for the future, replacing them with the power of this instant.

learn to think in moments, rather than in days, weeks, months, years, decades, or a lifetime. All we ever get is right now—that's it.

You have to live every day fully, rather than postponing your gratification or purpose in the pursuit of something in the future that may or may not arrive for you.

There is only one moment in which you can experience anything, and that is now, yet a great deal of time is thrown away by dwelling on past or future experiences. Turning your now into total fulfillment is the touchstone of effective living, and virtually all self-defeating behaviors (erroneous zones) are efforts at living in a moment other than the current one.

avoid procrastination and just begin from where we are, right here, right now.

There you have the deferrer's delight. As long as you say maybe, or hope, or wish, you can use these as a rationale for not doing anything now. All wishing and hoping are a waste of time—the folly of fairyland residents.

There's no such thing as difficulty when you live in the present moment, doing only what you can right now.

When you live in the now, you allow yourself the freedom to enjoy a moment, rather than postponing that gratification or joy because you've got something more pressing to do.

Later is never going to come, because it is always now, now, now, now, now. Now alignment or not. Now alignment or not. Now alignment or not. And when you show yourself that you can have now alignment, now alignment, now alignment, now you're living the way you intended to live.