Nicholas Sparks 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.

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

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.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

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

This is my report on how to live... They say the best way is just to live one day at a time... If you try to live seven days at a time, the week will be over before you know it.

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

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

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.

Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

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.

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.

Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .

The right time is always right now.

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

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.