Quotes about Now
This life is the one to be lived now, that much is crystal-clear. What did Thoreau supposedly say—'One world at a time'?
- John Updike
The simplicity. Getting rid of something by giving it to itself. God Himself folded into the tiny adamant structure, Self-destined to a succession of explosions, the great slow gathering out of water and air and silicon: this is felt without words in the turn of the round hoe-handle in his palms. Now
- John Updike
After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Meditation is a way of being, not a technique. Meditation is not about trying to get anywhere else. It is about allowing yourself to be exactly where you are and as you are, and the world to be exactly as it is in this moment, as well.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
- Marianne Williamson
It was a big base of my performance art ... the idea of here and now ... not something that's happening in the past or the future. It's always happening. It's always now.... Only what matters is the present.
- Marina Abramovic
Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.
- Paulo Coelho
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
- Oscar Wilde
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
- Mother Teresa
Precisely because the resurrection has happened as an event within our own world, its implications and effects are to be felt within our own world, here and now.
- NT Wright
Live Today like you may die tomorrow, Because someday you will be right.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
God's training is for now, not presently. His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. we have nothing to do with the afterwards of obedience; we can get it wrong when we think of the afterwards. what men call training and preparation, God calls the end… if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment is precious.
- Oswald Chambers