“You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn't stuck with the present.”— David J. Schwartz, amazon.com
“You'd better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last. When you run so fast to get somewhere, you miss half the fun of getting there. When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift thrown away. Life is not a race. Do take it slower. Hear the music b…”— Timothy Ferriss, amazon.com
“Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let the feeling turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyze. Don't make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happenin…”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com
“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com
“That was the morning I committed the first sin of love, which was to confuse beauty and a good sound track with knowledge.”— Stephanie Danler, amazon.com
“We all walk in a cloud of mourning for the New York that just disappeared.”— Stephanie Danler, amazon.com
“There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“What's happened before and what may happen later can't be as important as what's happening now.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.”— Michael J. Fox, amazon.com
“By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.”— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, amazon.com
“Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it’s impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or…”— H.E. Davey, amazon.com
“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise, they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them,…”— Joan Didion, amazon.com