Dick Van Dyke Quotes

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

Today is the only time we can possibly live.

Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

Today is the only guarantee you get.

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.

I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future.

Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.

I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn't just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Work and play go hand in hand. A lot of people want to work, work, and work until 40, and then relax. Who says you'll get to 40? Or 50? Who knows what'll happen in the next five minutes? The only reality is the present. And if you can't learn to live in the moment, you'll never be content.

I don't like thinking too much about the future - it freaks me out.

I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

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

If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?

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.

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