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Quotes About Now

We can remove the blocks to realizing our Higher Power by experiencing (including living in the Now), remembering, forgiving and surrendering (these five realizations can be viewed as being ultimately the same). Regular spiritual practices help us with this realization. (138)
~ Charles L. Whitfield
It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.
~ Charles Macomb Flandrau
Death is peace from this world's madness and paradise in my own self. Death as I lay in my grave of constant vibration, endless now
~ Charles Manson
weight when it comes to walking into one's future, and if anything can rob you of now, it's yesterday. We are really good at taking the pain of our past and projecting it into our future because it's what we know, and yet our past has almost nothing to do with our future other than being connected by seconds. That's it. So we face a choice. Either shine a light on yesterday and expose it, or forfeit the joy of now and the hope of tomorrow.
~ Charles Martin
O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl— a bit like Crab Nebula— do for now.
~ Charles Olson
Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.
~ Charles Yu
I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.
~ Charlize Theron
Day does not forestall nightmares - Night is not needed for dreams - There is no better time than here - No better place than now -
~ Chase LeBlanc
It doesn't matter what did or did not happen then. It only matters what happens NOW.
~ Cheri Huber
Rather than going from where we are to where we want to be, we need to remember to be where we are, here, now. We don 't need to go anywhere else or do anything else. We don't need to go from here to there; we need to return from there to here.
~ Cheri Huber
Will you do it later or will you do it now?
~ Cheryl Strayed
You're here. So be here, dear one. You're okay with us for now.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The Dusk is dark and glorious A star upon her brow; With sunset blushes in her cheeks, She beckons now.
~ Robert Loveman, c. 1901
There is no such thing as the future until it is the present.
~ Bernard Shaw
We shall not wait for tomorrow. The future is always beginning now...
~ Mark Strand, "The Babies"
Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it's impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or may be about to happen in the next instant). The present moment contains no time or space for worry.
~ H.E. Davey
Genuine goodness isn't discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.
~ H.E. Davey
Seek happiness and you will find unhappiness. There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path. Happiness is a state of mind. A state of surrender to and acceptance of what is. Reality experienced through presence. We cannot live in the future nor the past, but we can choose to be held prisoner. To be set free we must move into this moment. This moment is all that exists and all that will ever exist. If we choose not to be happy now, Then When?
~ H.W. Mann
But I want it done now, " said Miss Ophelia. What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
The past, the present, and the future are really one: they are today
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Always practical and to the point!" said St. Clare, his face breaking out into a smile. "You never leave me any time for general reflections, Cousin; you always bring me short up against the actual present; you have a kind of eternal now, always in your mind." "Now is all the time I have anything to do with," said Miss Ophelia.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Now is all the time I have anything to do with," said Miss Ophelia.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe