Life is only available in the here & now. The past is already gone, and the future is yet to come…there is only one moment for me to live…The present moment.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
- Montaigne
If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today.
- Anonymous
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
- Jan Glidewell
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
- Euripides
Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
- Isidore of Seville
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Buddha
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
- H. L. Mencken
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
- Chinese Proverb
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
- Abraham Maslow
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Charles Dederich
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
- Jean de la Bruyere
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
- D.H. Lawrence
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Today is life - the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.
- Dale Carnegie
One should count each day a separate life.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing is worth more than this day.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today.
- Anonymous
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
- Albert Camus
Learning is movement from moment to moment.
- J Krishnamurti
Today is the blocks with which we build.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
- David Gerrold
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
- Coria Kent
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
- Leo Tolstoy
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.
- Wayne Dyer
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
- Sir William Osler
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions; that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
- Alan Watts
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