Rick Pitino Quotes

I am in the present. I don't think of the past. I don't think of the future.

Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life - a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

I am a person who likes to be in the present.

You can't really live in the past because the present is always present.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.

Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.

How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.

Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

I like to live in the present.

You have to live in the present, I think.

I've found a way to live in the here and now.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.

With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".

As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...