Focusing on the Present Quotes

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Dwell on the past and you will lose an eye. Forget the past and you will lose both eyes.

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

Live each day as if was your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want, but, in the long run, you will get what you expect.

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

I don't want to think too much about the future. I want to go step by step, and we'll see what's next.

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

Stop watering things that were never meant to grow in your life. Water what works, what's good, what's right. Stop playing around with those dead bones and stuff you can't fix, its over...leave it alone! You're coming into a season of greatness. If you water what's alive and divine, you will see harvest like you've never seen before. Stop wasting water on dead issues, dead relationships, dead people, a dead past. No matter how much you water concrete, you can't grow a garden.

I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

I relax more when I'm behind the camera than anything else. I love that.

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

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

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

You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.

I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand. ...Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.

That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.

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

I'm not going to entertain something that took place not three months, not six months, not a year but two years ago. I'm not going to sit up here and say anything about it, whether I did or did not do it, because I don't want to beat a dead horse talking about it. It's not going to affect me any way, shape or fashion.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.