Horace Quotes

Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life.

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

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

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

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

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

The right time is always right now.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters. Most of the time we miss that.

Today is plenty; right now is enough. Tomorrow will come in good time. Until it does, live the depth of now.

I think that when you're in your twenties you think about your future, when you're in your thirties you're raising kids and you think about their future, but when you get to a time when you are diagnosed with any kind of life altering illness, what did you take away from it? And what I took away from it was how to live in the "now".

If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today.

I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it.

To quote the Tsalagi, you should never allow your yesterday to use up too much of today. The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.

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

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

After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.

You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.