Quotes by Authors - Page 48

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
André Gide
I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now-unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
Ken Keyes
The present is the now the here through which all future plunges to the past.
James Joyce
Through loyalty to the past our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
André Gide
Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.
Phillip Gribble
Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.
Anonymous
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.
Goldie Ivener
Few of us ever live in the present we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
Louis L'Amour
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill
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.
Wayne Dyer
If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday and worries over what might happen tomorrow we have no today in which to live.
Anonymous
Who controls the past controls the future who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future.
Dhyani Ywahoo
Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow.
Laura Palmer
Yesterday has gone. Tomorrow may never come. There is only the miracle of this moment. Savor it. It is a gift.
Anonymous
If you have one eye on yesterday and one eye on tomorrow you're going to be cockeyed today.
Anonymous
It is difficult to live in the present ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
Jim Bishop
Yesterday is a cancelled check tomorrow is a promissory note today is the only cash you have-so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
Take in the ideas of the day drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Reappraise the past reevaluate where we've been clarify where we are and predict or anticipate where we are headed.
Toni Cade Bambara
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
Simone de Beauvoir
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
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
It is now and in this world that we must live.
André Gide
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times it's the only time we've got.
Art Buchwald
I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.
D.H. Lawrence
Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.
Anonymous
The present is all you have for your certain possession.
Anonymous
The present is the symbol and vehicle of the future.
Joseph McSorely
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
I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
Storm Jameson
The here-and-now is no mere filling of time but a filling of time with God.
John Foster
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite to-day is big with blessings.
Mary Baker Eddy
One of these days is none of these days.
H. G. Bohn
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
You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
Anonymous
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
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
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 Hammarskjöld
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Abbie Hoffman
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.
Anonymous
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 past is our very being.
David Ben-Gurion
Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.
Anonymous
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
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
We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
Dr. Abram Sacher
The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Madame de Stael
The past not merely is not fugitive it remains present.
Marcel Proust
Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.
Anonymous
That sign of old age extolling the past at the expense of the present.
Sydney Smith
No past is dead for us but only sleeping love.
Helen Hunt Jackson
The past is the tomorrow that got away.
Leonard L. Levinson
Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot