Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Jean de La Bruyère
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. Mary Wollstonecraft
To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession. Denis de Rougemont
Enjoy the present smiling hour, And put it out of Fortune's power. Horace
Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skilful He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master. Benjamin Franklin
Enjoy the present day, trusting little to what tomorrow may bring. English Proverb