Live each day as if your life had just begun.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

- Napoleon Hill

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

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Anne Frank

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

- Buddha

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

- Richard Bach

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

- Leo Buscaglia

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, not to anticipate the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

- Buddha

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

- Audre Lorde

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

- Lillian Dickson

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.

- Buddha

One of the most powerful, and deeply spiritual, ways to work for social change is for us to take action in the present that embodies -- right now! -- the future vision that we seek

- Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

- Charles Caleb Colton



To change one's life:?
1. Start immediately.?
2. Do it flamboyantly.?
3. No exceptions.

- William James



Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

- Rabbi Tarfon



Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

- Henry David Thoreau



Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

- Michael Korda



Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. Stand in your own dooryard and you have eight thousand miles of solid ground beneath you, and all the sidereal splendors overhead.

- John Borroughs



Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

- Groucho Marx



To be awake is to be alive.

- Henry David Thoreau



The beginning is always today.

- Mary Wollstonecraft



The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

- Barbara De Angelis



Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

- Marcus Aurelius



Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

- Soren Kierkegaard



The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers.

- Brenda Peterson



Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow,
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!

- Thomas F. Healey



Light tomorrow with today!

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning



Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

- Pema Chodron



Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet: it's an act, an intention, a project, something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of time and right into Eternity, which is not theend of time or a whole lot of time or unending time, but timelessness, the old Eternal Now.

- Joanna Russ



Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

- Corita Kent



Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

- Corita Kent



The word now is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

- Arthur Miller



Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in this identical guise.

- Gwendolyn Brooks



Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy'd the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done...

- Matthew Arnold



Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

- Robert Frost



Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God's residence is next to mine,
His furniture is love.

- Emily Dickinson



Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

- Napoleon Hill



Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

- Kalidasa



We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

- Anais Nin



Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman



Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season.
It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year.
It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow.
Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

- W. E. B. Du Bois



My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

The Skin of Our Teeth, 1942

- Thornton Wilder