Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

There is only one conflict, and that’s between short-term and long-term thinking.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be.

I don't take tomorrow for granted.

I enjoy what I'm doing at the moment and try not to think too much about the future.

I'm very in the now; I don't like to look back a lot.

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

Nothing before you counts,” he said. “And I can’t even imagine an after.

You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute.

I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future.

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It’s good to have a big – picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you’re always living in the future, you’re never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.