Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

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

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

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

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Now is the only thing that exists.

Only the present counts.

No matter what happens, it’s always now.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

All you really have... is now.

What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment.

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.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

Today is the only guarantee you get.

Life is available only in the present moment.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

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

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.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Tomorrow doesn't really exist.