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Quotes About Time

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
~ Lillian Hellman
The past is that which we possess fully and in whole.
~ Isidor Eliashev
The past is the tomorrow that got away.
~ Leonard L. Levinson
No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, love.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
The past is one evil less and one memory more.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.
~ Anonymous
The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.
~ Marcel Proust
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
~ George E. Woodberry
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?
~ Robert M. Young
Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.
~ Anonymous
The past is our very being.
~ David BenGurion
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
~ Horace
Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again, tomorrow.
~ Anonymous
The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them
~ Dag Hammarskjold
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
You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
~ Anonymous
So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.
~ John Mason Brown
Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.
~ Old Eskimo proverb
The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.
~ John Foster
In the present, every day is a miracle.
~ James Gould Cozzens
I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
~ Storm Jameson