Regina Brett Quotes

Winners live each day as if their last. Not in the future, nor in the past, and someday . . . becomes now!

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

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

We have to realize that our lives could be gone in a moment. There are no guarantees that we will be here at this time next year. Learn to live each day to the fullest. Don't complain. Don't focus on what's wrong. Be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day.

My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."

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.

Each morning brings a hidden blessing; a blessing which is unique to that day, and which cannot be kept or re-used. If we do not use this miracle today, it will be lost.

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.

Life passes us by if all we do is focus on the future. Being present, for the present, is really what is important.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

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

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

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

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

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.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

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 do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.

Each moment is magical, precious and complete and will never exist again. We forget that now is the moment we are in, that the next one isn't guaranteed. And if we are blessed with another moment, any joy, creativity or wisdom it brings will ensue from the way we live in the present one.

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

I really think that if you live for today, tomorrow takes care of itself.

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