“I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.”

“I have learned not to focus too much on what's yet to come...and instead,I concentrate on today.”

“I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...]Instead he kissed me.”

“... Wait till next year. I know some people might find this depressing, and are understandable impatient for next year to finally come, but I think there's something sweetly hopeful in it. It's comforting in a way, believing that no matter what happens now, the best is still yet to come.”

“The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.”

“The past and the present, might we say, go like this. The future is a maybe. Yet we look back on the darkness that obscures the path that brought us fair, we only come up with another indefinite maybe. The only thing we perceive with any clarity is the present moment, and even that just passes by.”