Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

To quote the Tsalagi, you should never allow your yesterday to use up too much of today. The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

Today is plenty; right now is enough. Tomorrow will come in good time. Until it does, live the depth of now.

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today.

We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.

Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

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