Dan Millman Quotes

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

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

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

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.

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.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

I'm a stay-in-the-present momentist.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

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

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.

That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.

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

The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.

... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

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

I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.

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

I don't worry about the future because that will take care of itself. I don't carry around past baggage because what's that going to do for me? We only have now.

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

Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.

You have to live in the present, I think.