You must live in the present, ...

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.

~Henry David Thoreau~

You can clutch the past so tig...

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

~Jan Glidewell~

Yesterday is a canceled check;...

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely.

~Kay Lyons~

Write down the thoughts of the...

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

~Francis Bacon~

When one door closes another d...

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

~Alexander Graham Bell~

When I am anxious it is becaus...

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.

~Author Unknown~

What we are today comes from o...

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

~Buddha~

We seem to be going through a ...

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

~Art Buchwald~

We may make our future by the ...

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

~Maria Edgeworth~

We cannot carry our father's c...

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

~Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters, 1913~

We can easily manage if we wil...

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

~John Newton~

We are always getting ready to...

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Waste not fresh tears over old...

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

~Euripides, Alexander~

Today is life-the only life yo...

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

~Dale Carnegie~

There is never time in the fut...

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

~James Baldwin~

The more I give myself permiss...

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~

The meeting of two eternities,...

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

~Henry David Thoreau~

The future is an opaque mirror...

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

~Jim Bishop~

The ability to be in the prese...

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

~Abraham Maslow~

Stop acting as if life is a re...

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

~Wayne Dyer~