Able Quote by Samuel Johnson

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire…

— Samuel Butler

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

— Samuel Johnson

The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or…

— S. N. Goenka

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

— Samuel Smiles

“psychological time, which is the mind’s deep-seated habit of seeking the fullness of life in the future where it cannot be found and ignoring…

— Eckhart Tolle

We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do…

— Blaise Pascal

The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present…

— Eckhart Tolle

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we…

— Blaise Pascal

Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are…

— John Dewey

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but…

— Alan Watts

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at…

— Samuel Johnson