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Lao Tzu

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.

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Aeschylus

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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Alan Watts

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

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Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Albert Camus

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

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Alan Watts

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

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Maya Angelou

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

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Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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Maya Angelou

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

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Alan Watts

The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

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Alan Watts

Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.

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Alan Watts

We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.

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Alan Watts

There is no other reality than present reality.

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Alan Watts

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

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Oscar Wilde

I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.

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Alan Watts

The present is always changing the past.

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Helen Keller

Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

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Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

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