Quotes by American Authors - Page 38

We can see well into the past we can guess shrewdly in to the future but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow
No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear but grateful take the good I find the best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Look not mournfully into the past it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The only living life is in the past and future-the present is an interlude- strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.
Eugene O'Neill
I try to learn from the past but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
Donald Trump
Yesterday is a cancelled check tomorrow is a promissory note today is the only cash you have-so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
Reappraise the past reevaluate where we've been clarify where we are and predict or anticipate where we are headed.
Toni Cade Bambara
Youth is the time of getting middle age of improving and old age of spending.
Anne Bradstreet
The past is a bucket of ashes so live not in your yesterdays nor just for tomorrow but in the here and now.
Carl Sandburg
With the past I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The past the present and the future are really one: they are today.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.
Susan Sontag
Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is cash in hand. Spend It!
John W Newbern
Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.
Sherwood Anderson
This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
Alan Watts
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times it's the only time we've got.
Art Buchwald
The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window and it ticks.
Arthur Miller
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve.
Igor Stravinsky
I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
We are here and it is now. Further than that all knowledge is moonshine.
H.L. Mencken
The present is the symbol and vehicle of the future.
Joseph McSorely
The present is the blocks with which we build.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The present is elastic to embrace infinity.
Louis Anspacher
Act-act in the living Present!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one thing we can do and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can ... give all our attention to the opportunity before us.
Mark Van Doren
In the present every day is a miracle.
James Gould Cozzens
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite to-day is big with blessings.
Mary Baker Eddy
He growled at morning noon and night And trouble sought to borrow Although today the sky was bright He knew t'would storm tomorrow A thought of joy he could not stand And struggled to resist it Though sunshine dappled all the land This sorry pessimist it.
Nixon Waterman
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Will Durant
So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.
John Mason Brown
If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year. ... Today should always be our most wonderful day.
Thomas Dreier
We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
Henry Ford
It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life " but that now is all there is of my life.
Hugh Prather
All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Abbie Hoffman
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift esson or delight that moment has to
Barbara De Angelis
The universe is made of stories not of atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser
Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.
Arthur H. Campton
We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
Dr. Abram Sacher
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
The past is one evil less and one memory more.
Elbert Hubbard
Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittier
I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.
Grandma Moses
No past is dead for us but only sleeping love.
Helen Hunt Jackson
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The past is the tomorrow that got away.
Leonard L. Levinson
The past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever and it should be.
Lillian Hellman
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Joan Didion
The road was new to me as roads always are going back.
Sarah Orne Jewett
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass
Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.
Rose Chernin
As the dew to the blossom the bud to the bee As the scent to the rose are those memories to me.
Amelia C. Welby
Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.
Agnes Meyer
Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Willa Cather