live the moment

"I try to be strong" is inked backward on John Popper's chest, supposedly to remind him to try to be strong.

"live the moment" will be inked on my chest backward as a reminder of how important it is to live the moment, to see the details of trees, to peel an orange, to forget yesterday and start doing things today as the start of my entire lifetime with a new hype, everyday.

if my chest is in fact a huge bowl of pages, I might be tempted to ink all details of the words. including details of what these guys once said, at the start of their moment.

rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Montaigne

if you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today.
Some guy

you can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell

waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Euripides

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Isidore of Seville

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Sidharta

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
H. L. Mencken

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Some wise Chinese dude

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Charles Dederich

We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
Jean de la Bruyere

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
D.H. Lawrence

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln

Today is life - the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.
Dale Carnegie

One should count each day a separate life.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today.
Some dude who got hit by a truck

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus

Learning is movement from moment to moment.
J. Krishnamurti

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
Henry Ward Beecher

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius

Today is the blocks with which we build.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
David Gerrold

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
Coria Kent

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
Morris West

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
Sir William Osler

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan Watts

live the moment