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You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

— Wayne Dyer

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

While your past can inform you and your future can inspire you, the moment of choice exists in the here and now.

— Debbie Ford

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

— Story Musgrave

I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.

— Yoko Ono

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

— Bob Dylan

I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.

— Marisa Berenson

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to live in the future, not the past.

— Gordon Brown

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

— Bob Dylan

✗Opposing Perspectives

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

— Bill Cosby

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

— Eckhart Tolle