Anna Quindlen Quotes

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

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

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

Today is the only time we can possibly live.

Today will never come again.

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.

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

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

Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it.

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

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

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

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

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.

To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

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

I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.

If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now.