We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

I am the owner of my actions,[karma] heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir.