The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach

Live not in yesterdays, Look back and you may sorrow. Live precisely for today, Look forward to tomorrow.

A loser seldom lives in the present, but instead destroys the present by focusing on past memories or future expectations.

Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift -- which is why they call it the present.

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

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

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.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

"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.

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

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.

Every day is just one day.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.