Abraham Cowley Quotes

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

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.

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

But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

This moment,which we are living right now will pass too. We have to enjoy, enjoy all that we can.

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

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

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.

Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

Today is plenty; right now is enough. Tomorrow will come in good time. Until it does, live the depth of now.

I think that when you're in your twenties you think about your future, when you're in your thirties you're raising kids and you think about their future, but when you get to a time when you are diagnosed with any kind of life altering illness, what did you take away from it? And what I took away from it was how to live in the "now".

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.

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.

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

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

I think it's really important to live in the moment.

I always try to live in the moment.

I have to enjoy every moment.

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?