It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

Nobody know when he is going to die. It is no good simply putting it off all the time, as we tend to do. If you face it, you realize you hold your life in your hands, and you're ready to let go at any moment. I think that is real wisdom.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

I do not know what the future holds for me.

She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for the present - she got through that as quickly as she could, running away from things, running towards things, so that her voice was always a little breathless, her heart pounding at an escape or an expectation.

The thought of retirement set his nerves twitching and straining: he always prayed that death would come first.

I had no memory at all of Sarah and I was completely free from anxiety, jealousy, insecurity, hate: my mind was a blank sheet on which somebody had just been on the point of writing a message of happiness. I felt sure that when my memory came back, the writing would continue and that I should be happy.

She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for the present—she got through that as quickly as she could, running away from things, running towards things, so that her voice was always a little breathless, her heart pounding at an escape or an expectation.