Frank Herbert Quotes

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

As I don't know about tomorrow, I never save the best for later.

I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

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.

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

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

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

Everything happening around me is very random. I am enjoying the phase, as the journey is far more enjoyable than the destination.

I never look forward. I live for today. And if you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment.

I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings.... if I've learned one thing from all that'shappened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.

Each moment is magical, precious and complete and will never exist again. We forget that now is the moment we are in, that the next one isn't guaranteed. And if we are blessed with another moment, any joy, creativity or wisdom it brings will ensue from the way we live in the present one.

There's no destination. There's no getting anywhere. There's just the going. The key to life is to make the going really fun. Because people that are like, “If I just get to this, then boom!” And then they get there and there's this dawning of an afterwards. Whereas I'm just always in the going. And it's not a frantic going like, “I gotta keep going or I'm gonna go nuts!” I can not do anything for weeks or months if I need to and just sit and read books or watch movies. I'm just as fine consuming and absorbing new art as I am trying to make it. But it's all in the going.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

I literally have no idea what's to come. I try to just stay in the moment.

Today is the only guarantee you get.