Echoes

It is indeed foolish to be unhappy now because you may be unhappy at some future time.

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.

What doth care about future events bring thee, save sorrow upon sorrow? Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. It is vain and useless to be disturbed or lifted up about future things which perhaps will never come.

Do not, my soul, seek immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

Even as we speak, envious time is running away from us. Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.

I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life.

...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

What I urge is that you so learn to control the machinery as to live with 'day-tight compartments' as the most certain way to ensure safety on the voyage. Touch a button and hear, at every level of your life, the iron doors shutting out the dead yesterdays and the unborn to-morrows.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Accept everything just the way it is.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able—be good.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

We place the happy life in the security of the mind and in freedom from all obligations.

He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

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.