“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

“You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.”

“How can you grow with your present to get ready for your future if you continue to live in your past and all that it contains.”

“The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment”

“You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.”

“Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?”