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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Life Moment Future Mind Past

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Inspirational Happiness Future You

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Light Darkness Shine Order

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness Future True Happiness Enjoy

One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.

Good Memories Best Yourself

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Future Time Today Gift

'Carpe Diem' is a phrase that I try to embrace. It means seize the day, to make the most of the present and to give little thought to the past or future. In the time that I have here, I want to love and live life to the fullest while being a positive influence on others. And I want a full life for everyone.

Life Positive Love Live Life

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Henry David Thoreau

Moment Yourself Live You Wave

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Life Moment Gratitude Spiritual

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Life Moment Focus You

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Shadow Hope Moving Tomorrow

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

William Arthur Ward

Gratitude Thankful Feeling Giving

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Moment Hope Today Believe

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Inspirational You Start Your

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Good Moment Future Power

To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.

Day Future Heart Light

A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

Positive Simple Problems Negative

People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present.

Good Age People Think

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Pain Great Grief Memory Joy

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Change Bird You Fly

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Success Moment Future Relationship

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

Art Theatre Only Gone

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Future Past Burden Prejudice

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Future You Planning Something Now

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

Warren G. Harding

Politics Healing Revolution Need

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Moment Ability Wellness Mental

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