''Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. 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.
A loser seldom lives in the present, but instead destroys the present by focusing on past memories or future expectations.
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present — which seldom happens to us.
Confine yourself to the present
Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.
Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
Every day is just one day.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
Forget the past and live the present hour.
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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, and I serve it in all lucidity.
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.