Alan Watts Quotes

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

For me, it's just staying in the present, enjoying what I'm doing, and making sure I'm making the kind of improvements and moves forward that I want to.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

I've always said I live in the present, and I build for the future.

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

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

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

I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.

While your past can inform you and your future can inspire you, the moment of choice exists in the here and now.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

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

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.