“Avoid the past, live the present, anticipate the future.”

“Our memories are thronged with the past; our anticipations range over the future; and it is in the past and the future that we really live. It is so even with the higher animals: they too order their lives by memory and anticipation.”

“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”

“The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valéry once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations.”

“The real is the present, conceived not as a mathematical point between the present and the past, but as the union of present and past in a duration or permanence that is at the same time change. Thus the past as past and the future as future do not exist at all, but are purely ideal; the past as living in the present and the future as germinating in the present are wholly real and indeed are just the present itself. It is because of the presence of these two elements in the present… that the present is a concrete and changing reality and not an empty mathematical point.”

“If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.”

“I'm living in the future so the present is my past.
My presence is a present, kiss my ass.”

“The present is short lived. Difficult to define it without disturbing the past and the future events.”

“The girl with a future avoids a man with a past. ”

“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.”