"People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future."
Eckhart Tolle
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
Marcus Aurelius
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
Henry David Thoreau
"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."
Lao Tzu
"Realise deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life."
Eckhart Tolle
"This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day. Thou canst not then be false to any man."
William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
"Do not dwell in the past, nor dream of the future; concentrate the mind on the present moment."
Buddha
"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"
Khalil Gibran
"Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear."
Isa Upanishad
"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy."
Lao Tzu
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius
"All the suffering, stress... comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for."
Jon Kabat Zinn
"The state we call realization is simply being one's self, not knowing anything or becoming anything."
Ramana Maharshi
"When we let go of all our notions about things, everything becomes really true."
Kosho Uchiyama
"One of our deepest habitual patterns is to feel that now is not enough."
Pema Chodron