Jonathan Larson Quotes

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.

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

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

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

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.

Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.

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

Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.

I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and I can't relive yesterday but I live in the moment if I can.

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

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

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.

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

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

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.

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.

the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.

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

You can’t do anything about yesterday, and the only way to improve tomorrow is by what you do right now.

I had only immediate things today, only today, not tomorrow. I don't know what will happen tomorrow. Today I can see myself like crystal.

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.