"Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"The beginning is always today."
— Mary Shelley

"Prayerlessness is an insult to God. Every prayerless day is a statement by a helpless individual, 'I do not need God today.'"
— Ben Jennings

""If you're talking about what you did yesterday, you're not doing much today."
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— James Andrews

"Live today."
"Yes. 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?"
"What am I doing?"
"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 that 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."
— Jerry Spinelli (Love, Stargirl)

"Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today."
— André Breton

"Today will die tomorrow."
— Algernon Charles Swinburne

"If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?"
— R. Buckminister Fuller

""Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day,""
— Ralph Waldo Emerson