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Quotes About Mindfulness

Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold
~ Peace Pilgrim
Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.
~ Bill Murray
You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.
~ Deepak Chopra
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
~ Alan Watts
Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.
~ Mark Twain
Try saying this silently to everyone and everything you see for thirty days and see what happens to your own soul: I wish you happiness now and whatever will bring happiness to you in the future.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
~ Lord Acton
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
~ Thomas Merton
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
~ Tara Brach
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.
~ William DeWitt Hyde
If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.
~ Byron Katie
The hard part about living in the present is it forces you to abandon hope for the future. Thanks for nothing, now.
~ Dana Gould
Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts.
~ Marianne Williamson
I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.
~ Rajneesh
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.
~ Michel de Montaigne
This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.
~ Tim Ferriss
We live in the moment. We're not thinking about the future right now. We're not thinking about the past, you know. We're living in this moment right here and it's a sweet moment to live in.
~ Dwyane Wade
Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.
~ Hugh Prather
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
~ Erica Jong
Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.
~ Nhat Hanh
The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
~ Ziggy Marley