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Living in the moment19 quotes
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! — Horace · 23 BCI live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all that bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free. — Dominic Toretto · 2001Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying. — Robert Herrick · 1648Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. — John Lennon · 1980With the Past as past I have nothing to do, nor with the Future as future. I live now. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1839What is love? ’Tis not hereafter.
Present mirth hath present laughter.
What’s to come is still unsure.
In delay there lies no plenty,
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.
Youth’s a stuff will not endure. — William Shakespeare · 1602All 19 quotes →Being present5 quotes
With the Past as past I have nothing to do, nor with the Future as future. I live now. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1839Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. — Boris Pasternak · 1958Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment. — Thomas Mann · 1939Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,—act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838Live in the now. — Garth Algar · 1992Life3 quotes
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. — John Lennon · 1980A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. — Ecclesiastes 8:15 · 931 BCHe will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine." — Horace · 23 BCEnjoying life2 quotes
What is love? ’Tis not hereafter.
Present mirth hath present laughter.
What’s to come is still unsure.
In delay there lies no plenty,
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.
Youth’s a stuff will not endure. — William Shakespeare · 1602A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. — Ecclesiastes 8:15 · 931 BCPassage of time2 quotes
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying. — Robert Herrick · 1648Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. — John Lennon · 1980Present and future2 quotes
With the Past as past I have nothing to do, nor with the Future as future. I live now. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1839Wise men don't say, "I shall live to do that". Tomorrow's life's too late; live today. — Martial · 103Youth2 quotes
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying. — Robert Herrick · 1648How beautiful is youth,
that is always slipping away!
Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so:
of tomorrow there's no knowing. — Lorenzo de Medici · 1490Ephemeral nature of time1 quote
Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment. — Thomas Mann · 1939Gratitude1 quote
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. — Horace · 23 BCLetting go1 quote
You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. — Walter Hagen · 1956Living life to the fullest1 quote
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! — Horace · 23 BCMaking plans1 quote
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. — John Lennon · 1980New age1 quote
Live in the now. — Garth Algar · 1992Past and present1 quote
With the Past as past I have nothing to do, nor with the Future as future. I live now. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1839The future1 quote
Who knows but the world may end tonight? — Robert Browning · 1855The present1 quote
Wise men don't say, "I shall live to do that". Tomorrow's life's too late; live today. — Martial · 103Time1 quote
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying. — Robert Herrick · 1648Tomorrow1 quote
Who knows but the world may end tonight? — Robert Browning · 1855