Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

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

Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, 'one who knows the better way to live alone.'

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

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.

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.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .

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.

To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

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.

I like taking my time and seeing the things around me and appreciating the now.

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.

And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.

Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.