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“Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.”

Thinking Humans Past Animal Live In The Present Just Live Always Thinking Thinking About The Future

Author:Townes Van Zandt

“I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation and recollection. That’s where I lived my life, always wanting, longing, wishing.”

Thinking Past Wish Sides Longing Anticipation Recollection Live In The Present Wavering

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.”

Whole Past Teaching Involved Rooted Get Involved Live In The Present Zen Life

Author:Rajneesh

“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.”

Ifs Doe Art Past Future Works Of Art Live In The Present

Book:Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

“Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.”

Wells Past Energy Ambition Each Day Traveler Road To Success Live In The Present Morrow

Author:William Osler

“Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.”

Mind Ideas Past Turns Fantasy Alive Shapes Creating Pointing Live In The Present

Book:The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Source: The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

“To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.”

May Past Satisfying Live In The Present

Book:SELF AND OTHERS

Source: SELF AND OTHERS

“I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.”

Source: A Covenant of Justice: Trackers, Book Two

“I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.”

Believe Past I Believe Pay Attention I Believe In Each Day Live In The Present

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.”

Ifs Moments Able Past Certain Rounds Seeds Live In The Present

Book:The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

“The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It just lives in the present moment - wholeheartedly. If the present moment spells disaster, the child suffers it with his whole heart, his whole soul, his whole strength, his whole little being.”

Ifs Heart Children Littles Soul Whole Moments Past Suffering Grief Terrible Disaster Present Moment Spells Live In The Present Just Live Without Hope Wholeheartedly

Author:Maria Franziska von Trapp

“I live in the present moment and easily release all past pain.”

Moments Pain Past Release Present Moment Live In The Present Past Pain

Author:Louise Hay