Simone Weil Quotes

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

You have to live life for today and for this moment.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.

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

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

I never plan tomorrow because I don’t even know what I’m doing today.

No other road, no other way, No day but today!

Just in case the world ends tomorrow," she said. "We might as well enjoy today.

Take your love and your pleasure as you find it. Do not worry so much of the future that you let today pass you by. you are happy. need you know more than that?

Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.

We have only today. Let us begin

If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness.

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

Enjoy your magic moment today. As it will not be here tomorrow.

Today is the youngest you will ever be. Live like it.

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

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

The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.

Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny self, to take up the cross and to follow Him. Now who denies himself and takes up his cross and follows Christ better than he who seeks not to do his own will, but always that of God? Behold, now, how little is needed to become as Saint? Nothing more than to acquire the habit of willing, on every occasion, what God wills.

I am not a contemplative type, basically. I am much more of an action person and, as a consequence, I look forward to today and tomorrow and what's breaking.

It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. ... The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.