“Do not waste time regretting shoulds or might have beens. A 'Do it!' mindset focuses on the here and now.”— Bev James, 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
“While washing dishes, you might be thinking about the tea you’re going to drink afterwards, and so try to get them out of the way as quickly as possible in order to sit and drink tea. But that means that you are incapable of living during the time you are washing the dishes. When you are washing the…”— Thich Nhat Hanh, amazon.com
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.”— Ram Dass, fyp-psychology.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’d like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.”— Doris Lessing, amazon.com
“For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the…”— Lev Grossman, amazon.com
“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“I’m not good at future planning. I don’t plan at all. I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow. I don’t have a day planner and I don’t have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.”— Heath Ledger, lifeandstylemag.com
“I choose to stay present, to unlearn how to unlove, to love, and to practice my worthiness of it.”— Buddy Wakefield, amazon.com