A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
-Eric Hoffer
Quotations
Future
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.
-Meredith Wilson
In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
-Andy Warhol
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-James Thurber
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip one hour more of sleep and live.
-Sylvia Plath
The past can't see you, but the future is listening.
-Terri Guillemets
Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Gautama Buddha
And in today already walks tomorrow.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
-Marcus Aurelius
