Live in the Present Quotes
Yesterday cannot be changed and tomorrow cannot be reached, so the only day a man ever gets is this one. Regret and worry are the two thieves that steal it. This path in the Mindset pillar holds the greatest quotes ever spoken on living in the present. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
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“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.”
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“Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand.”
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“We live only now. Everything else is either passed or is unknown.”
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“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly.”
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“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
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“Don’t time travel into the past. You can’t change it. Today it starts all over again.”
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“I don’t care about three years ago – I don’t care about two years ago. I don’t care about last year. The only thing I care about is this week.”
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“Never look back in regret – move on to the next thing.”
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“Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.”
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“Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.”
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“Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.”
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“Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. When you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!”
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“Regrets are illuminations come too late.”
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“Live in day-tight compartments.”
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“One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.”
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“Don’t regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.”
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“If you change your relationship with time, you will change your life. The most important time of your life is right now.”
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“See today as the beginning of the future, not the tail end of the past.”
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“Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.”
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“What would I be afraid of if I didn’t have a past?”
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“If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.”
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“If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.”
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“If you go through life believing that happiness is somewhere in your future, it always will be - it will never be where you are now.”
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“You have to call off the search in order to find everything you’ve been searching for.”
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“Worrying about what has been before will not change what is to come. Only look back to learn.”
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“Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.”
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“You must be willing to let go of the last action and pour yourself fully into the next action.”
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“Happiness will always be withheld if you believe it is somewhere else.”
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“Each day is a small lifetime. Live a good life today.”
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“It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”
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“Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.”
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“Visit your soul; don’t visit your past.”
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“If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man.”
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“Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that have had their course, it is needless to remonstrate about; things that are past, it is needless to blame.”
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“I love museums. But I don’t want to live in one.”
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“The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people’s chances to enjoy theirs.”
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“It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.”
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“There is no inherent problem in our desire to escalate our goals, as long as we enjoy the struggle along the way. The problem arises when people are so fixated on what they want to achieve that they cease to derive pleasure from the present.”
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“Today is the youngest you will ever be. Live like it.”
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“Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.”
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