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What Will You Do With Now?

Inspirational Quotes about Living in the Now

Yesterday is history.  Tomorrow is a mystery.  And today?  Today is a gift.  That's why we call it the present.  ~Babatunde Olatunji

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.  ~André Gide, Nourritures Terrestres

Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.  ~The Music Man

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

Would you keep a chive on your tooth just because you enjoyed last night's potato?  ~From the television show Boston Common

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.  ~Oscar Wilde

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.  ~Cherokee Indian Proverb

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.  ~Edna Ferber

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.  ~L. Thomas Holdcroft

People are always asking about the good old days.  I say, why don't you say the good now days?  ~Robert M. Young

Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we've lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that's gone.  ~J K Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 1889

Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that's priceless is Now.  ~Caleb Baylor Hive, 2005

It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.  ~Margaret Bonnano

It's not what if, it's what now.  ~Author Unknown

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.  ~Sholem Asch, The Nazarene, 1939

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.  ~Author Unknown

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.  ~James Thurber

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