As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.Aminu Kano
People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.Thich Nhat Hanh
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.Christopher Paolini
Cut yourself off from the past and the future and live in the present, and your life becomes a song and a dance.Osho
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.Jan Glidewell
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the presentMahatma Gandhi
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.Roy T. Bennett
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.Bill Keane
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.Donald Trump
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.Eckhart Tolle
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.Eckhart Tolle
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.Henry David Thoreau
It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.George Foreman
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.Jim Rohn
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha
The past and future are real illusions; they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.Alan Watts
A man who works for the immediate present and its immediate rewards is nothing but a fool.Wilbur Wright
The true nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, and all that was not present did not exist.Jorge Luis Borges