Maria Edgeworth Quotes

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

It's exciting being in the present. You're always reading emails, talking about the future, looking at pictures on Facebook of the past. But living in the present? It's almost a dead medium. I almost want to do a sketch about being in the present.

I've always said I live in the present, and I build for the future.

You can't think about what you're going to do in the future until you've done things in the present.

None of us is promised tomorrow... So whenever an opportunity has presented itself for me I'm willing to take it.

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

No time like the present

Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done.

The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

I am in the present. I don't think of the past. I don't think of the future.

I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I'm living right now.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

You may have heard about living today, tomorrow, or "tonow." Tonow, children tell us, is a gift, which is why we call it "the present." Children understand that tonow is the place to live. The present is really the only moment we have. Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.

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 is my report on how to live... They say the best way is just to live one day at a time... If you try to live seven days at a time, the week will be over before you know it.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

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

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.