Daphne du Maurier Quotes

Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once.

I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

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.

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

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.

Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

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

Commit yourself to deeper awareness. Be generous of spirit. Embrace every day as a new world. Let the timeless be in charge of time.

Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.

There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

While your past can inform you and your future can inspire you, the moment of choice exists in the here and now.

I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.

Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

I try to live my life one day at a time, and if I look too far in advance, I get really stressed.

I typically take life one day at a time.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.