Frank Herbert Quotes

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.

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.

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.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

To quote the Tsalagi, you should never allow your yesterday to use up too much of today. The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

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.

You have to live in the present; not on memories.

You can't really live in the past because the present is always present.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.

The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.

I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I'm living right now.