Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.

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

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

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

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

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters. Most of the time we miss that.

Today is the only guarantee you get.

I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

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.

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

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.

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

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

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.

The right time is always right now.

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.