Hugh Prather Quotes

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

The present is a point just passed.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Tomorrow doesn't really exist.

The now, the here, through which all future plunges into the past.

The future never comes. Life is always now.

There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

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

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

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Today is unique! It has never occurred and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

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.

In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives about us, the value for good and evil, of the aims men have pursued and the means they have adopted. It is good, from time to time, to view the present as already past, and to examine what elements it contains that will add to the world's store of permanent possessions, that will live and give life when we and all our generation have perished.

Today is the only guarantee you get.