If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of living in the present rather than being distracted by the past or future.
Michael J. Fox's quote highlights how being preoccupied with what has happened or what might happen can prevent us from fully experiencing and appreciating the present moment. It serves as a reminder that focusing on today is crucial for our happiness and fulfillment.
In practice
During a motivational speech about mindfulness and being present in life.
I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.
My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.
There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.
I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.
A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!
The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.
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