Patrice Evra Quotes

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear.

Put out of your mind what is past and do not fret and worry about what has not yet come to pass.

You have to live in the present; not on memories.

Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.

If you are always talking about the past, then you don't really have much in the present.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

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

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.