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"
Quotations
Future
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
-Arthur Wing Pinero
"The Second Mrs. Tanqueray"
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
-C. S. Lewis
I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer.
-Dan Quisenberry
Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.
-Dodinsky
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
-Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk
"Survivor"
The future is always beginning now.
-Mark Strand
"Reasons for Moving"
After all, tomorrow is another day!
-Margaret Mitchell
"Gone With the Wind"
People were always getting ready for tomorrow.
I didn’t believe in that.
Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them.
It didn’t even know they were there.
-Cormac McCarthy
"The Road"
Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Gautama Buddha
