Quotes About Now

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

I've stopped making plans a long time back because they never work in my case. Now, I just take each day as it comes.

Don't you think about tomorrow, think about today instead.

To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

Yes, life is weird, but I embrace the weird. Let everyone else go marching off into their great shining futures if they want. Me, I've always been more than content to tip my whisky bottle and take a ride straight into the heart of the spectacular now.

who cares about all the problems and barriers, nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now.

Let the morrow bring on what it would, he thought, for it didn't exist. Only now could lay any claim to forever...

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking, why the hell not? Why not you? Why not now?

Remember always that the perfect circumstances for your dream tour will never exist. "You will never simultaneously have infinite time, money, freedom and mojo," says Alastair Humphreys. "So the best time is now.

I live one day at a time.

I only live one time.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more. The thing that you personally have long ago forgotten, or can easily forget, is happening to me now, and will happen to me again to-morrow.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these

Hoy es hoy, y ayer se fue. No hay duda.

This is how memory works: not as a transcription but as an attempt—as an essay is an attempt . . . to locate meaning between the irretrievable then and the equally unfathomable now.

what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

We atheists do want justice. Why would you imagine we don't? As with purpose, justice doesn't have to be ultimate to be meaningful. We want justice in our world, not in a pretend supernatural realm. Since there is no ultimate cosmic justice, we have all the more reason not to put it off to an uncertain future. We had better do it now. We

There is no other life than this. You would not have stumbled into the vastly imperfect, beautiful, impossible present.

Is it just for me, or for others? For the benefit of the few, or the many? For now, or for the future?

still hear her. But perhaps I had been released. Maybe the fear and nausea was no longer a sea to drown in, but only a pool of water reflecting the past alongside the now. Was I free?