“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.”— Junia Bretas, westlosangelesbuddhisttemple.org
“And you’ll sit beside me, and we’ll look, not at visions, but at realities.”— Edith Wharton,, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”— E. B. White, amazon.com
“Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote 'no future for you!' Don't let the irony be lost.”— John Lydon, axs.com
“The future is called "perhaps", which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”— Khalil Gibran, goodreads.com
“Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.”— Rick Warren, amazon.com
“He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness a…”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com
“Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“It’s fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there’s another one tomorrow. I’m going to start making them count.”— Tim Tharp, amazon.com
“I turn and I slowly walk away and I don’t look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.”— James Frey, amazon.com