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Quotes About Mindfulness

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.
~ Anonymous
The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.
~ Bruce Lee
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Fear is finding fault with the future.
~ Ajahn Brahm
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
~ Isak Dinesen
Don't let your thoughts run away with you, don't start planning to bail out because you're worried about the future and how much you can take. Don't look ahead to the pain. Just get through the day.
~ Marcus Luttrell
I always live in the present. I don't know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
~ Carlos Santana
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
~ Alan Watts
If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.
~ Gautama Buddha
If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
~ Therese of Lisieux
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
~ Mitch Albom
I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
~ Fernando Pessoa
You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.
~ Yvon Chouinard
Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
~ Nicole Kidman
The present is our future past, we've gotta make this moment last
~ Sabrina Carpenter
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.
~ Robert Jones Burdette
The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
~ Pema Chodron
The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
~ Tadao Ando
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.
~ Carlos Slim