Quotes About Time

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Yesterday has gone. Tomorrow may never come. There is only the miracle of this moment. Savor it. It is a gift.

Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow.

Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

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.

Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.

The present is the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

Do not manage as if you had ten thousand years before you. Look you, death stands at your elbow; make the most of your minute, and be good for something while it is in your power.

When shall we live if not now?

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now," without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave.

It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

We are always beginning to live, but are never living.

Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.