Focusing on the Now Quotes

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

Let life unfold, say what you mean. You can’t always think about what you’ve lost, or what you don’t have, or what you didn’t get. Because when you do that, you’re missing out on the now. You can’t know if you’ll be here tomorrow or a year from now.

I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.

I live in the present.

Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.

You can't think about what you're going to do in the future until you've done things in the present.

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

I don't look too far ahead, to be honest.

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

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

I try not to look too far ahead, I never have.

I never look at past results. It's about what happens now.

I don't look ahead. I just worry about today.

I live in the present and in the future. Not in the past.

Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

You dwell too much on the past, you forget that you've got to take care of the present.

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

I'm very in the now; I don't like to look back a lot.