Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

I live in the present with an eye on the future.

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

To be in touch with yourself requires great sensitivity to everything that's going on here and now.

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now

I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.

Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.

And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.

Heaven is the experience of being completely present to all that is, all that you are, and all that you have to give. Are you choosing to live in heaven or suffer in hell?

I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

The quality of my life was the quality of my questions.

I am the thought you are now thinking.

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.

people are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.