Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Gautama Buddha
Quotations
Future
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
-Voltaire
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip one hour more of sleep and live.
-Sylvia Plath
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
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?"
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
-Anthony "Tony" Robbins
Future : That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
-Eric Hoffer
