“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“I choose to stay present, to unlearn how to unlove, to love, and to practice my worthiness of it.”— Buddy Wakefield, amazon.com
“She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“My dear, It’s who first thought the thought. You’re searching, Joe, For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.”— Robert Frost, amazon.com
“Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.”— Junia Bretas, westlosangelesbuddhisttemple.org
“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live, breathe before it’s gone.”— Rumi, billmoyers.com
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“Love who you love while you have them. That’s all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you’ll never run out.”— Ann Brashares, amazon.com
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.”— Eric Thomas, goodreads.com
“On some nights it’s best to stop thinking about the past, and all that’s been won and lost. On nights like this, just getting into bed, crawling between the clean white sheets, is a great relief.”— Alice Hoffman, amazon.com
“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”— Eckhart Tolle, eckharttollenow.com