Life is only the present. And in the present, neither there is room for memories of
the past nor worries of the future. The root cause of all the miseries of life is the
effort to accommodate the past or future in the present.
-Deep Trivedi
Quotations
Future
After all, tomorrow is another day!
-Margaret Mitchell
"Gone With the Wind"
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
-Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk
"Survivor"
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
-Seth Godin
"Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?"
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-James Thurber
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
-George Carlin
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
The future is always beginning now.
-Mark Strand
"Reasons for Moving"
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
-Arthur Wing Pinero
"The Second Mrs. Tanqueray"
