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.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.
It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.
Nor deem the irrevocable Past _x000D_ As wholly wasted, wholly vain, _x000D_ If, rising on its wrecks, at last _x000D_ To something nobler we attain.
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