Paulette Goddard Quotes

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

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

Never carry things on from the past. The past is gone. Every moment be rid of it, solved or unsolved. Drop it - and don't carry parts because those parts won't allow you to solve new problems that live in this moment. Live in this moment as totally as possible, and suddenly you will come to realized, that if you live it totally, it is solved. There is no need to solve it. Life is not a problem to be solved, it's a mystery to be lived.

I live in the present; there is nothing more important than that.

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.

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.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Enlightenment is the mind that is open to anything, but attached to nothing. That is freedom. No values, no resentment, no grudges. Not carrying the past along with you. Not carrying memories from the past that are hurtful and shameful and embarrassing. Just let all that go and you are living in enlightenment, and you are free for everything.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past. I'm not impressed by the past very much. The past bores me, to tell you the truth; it really bores me. I don't remember many movies and certainly not my own.

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.

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.

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

I've stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking what's going to happen tomorrow. What's happening today, this minute, is what I care about.

The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.

Now I don't put things in the boxes anymore. I'm just focusing on right now.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

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

Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.

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.