“Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present.”

“There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.”

“For me, art has neither past nor future. All I have ever made was for the present.”

“If neither love nor pain
Will ever touch thy heart,
Then only God's in thee,
And then in God thou art”

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”

“There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.”

“In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination…”

“Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.”

“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.”

“Abrahamic religions – Islam, Christianity, and Judaism – are neither religions of peace nor religions of violence. They are storytellers of the past and forewarners of the future.”