If you live in the past, you don’t enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is.

—Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements

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About Miguel Ruiz

Portrait of Miguel Ruiz

Miguel Ángel Ruiz Macías (born August 27, 1952), better known as Don Miguel Ruiz, is a Mexican author of Toltec spiritual and personal development texts.

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Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

—Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements

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When you're in love, every day is like a present you get to open.

—Elin Hilderbrand in Winter Storms

What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.

—Elin Hilderbrand in Beautiful Day

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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

—Harriet Beecher Stowe

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It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.

—Adi Alsaid in Let's Get Lost

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When you're traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

—William Least Heat Moon

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