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.
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.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
A true friend is someone who accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
Who controls the past controls the future. who controls the present controls the past.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. the desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
We waste our energy fighting one another, instead of presenting a common front to the world.