“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, amazon.com
“If you are scared of tomorrow, think of the things you can control today, the things you have now, think of just today and how you can get through it. Think of how you can make today slightly better, think of how you can make this day a good day in case history repeats itself tomorrow. Think of maki…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“The only way you can ensure having a good future is by living a good present. That’s it. That’s the secret to getting exactly what you want out of life.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there. This is why you have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you because the present may be all you've got. And if there's more ahead then the present is where you can really shape your futu…”— Amanda Howells, amazon.com
“If you live in the future, you’ll miss things, right here, right now, and you’ll regret it later.”— Jessica Therrien, amazon.com
“People do this a lot. They don't seem to realize that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materializes. But everything's not going to be made of leather, the wo…”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.”— Robyn Schneider, amazon.com
“I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.”— Robert Walser, amazon.com
“There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.”— Laini Taylor, amazon.com
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”— Alan W. Watts, books.google.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
“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”— George Harrison, books.google.com
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”— Mother Teresa, books.google.com
“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“We’ve been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we’ve blighted their present.”— Jack Thorne, Harry Potter, amazon.com
“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Pictures? No, they lie. You’re not the picture. My dear, you’re not the dates, or the ink, or the paper. You’re not these trunks of junk and dust. You’re only you, here, now—the present you.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And the…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com