There was no future and no past. The present was eternity.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.

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

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

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

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

The future will soon be a thing of the past.

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

There are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes and the future loses meaning. There is only the Present, which means that two of the three Aalim are surplus to requirements. And then there are those of us who are trapped in yesterdays, in the memory of a lost love, or a childhood home, or a dreadful crime. And some people live only for a better tomorrow; for them the past ceases to exist

...the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment