Anticipating The Future Quotes

• Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.

  Ron Chernow

  Enormous, Amount

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• The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

  S. N. Goenka

  Mind, Aversion, Vipassana

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• Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.

  Jessica Lange

  Inspiring, Graduation, Heart

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• Throughout your day, when you notice that your thoughts have drifted away, come back to where you are. You'll instantly see why you drifted away, whether because you were bored, anxious, dwelling on the past, or anticipating the future.

  Deepak Chopra

  Past, Dwelling, Bored

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• It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.

  Jean Webster

  Regret, Past, Daddy

  Jean Webster (2004). “Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy”, p.105, Penguin

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• Bliss cannot be found by remembering the past or anticipating the future.

  Deepak Chopra

  Past, Remember, Bliss

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