Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.

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

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.

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.

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

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

You can't think about what you're going to do in the future until you've done things in the present.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

If you change your relationship with time, you will change your life. The most important time of your life is right now.

The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

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

In the end the only thing that you can have on your side is time. The only way to gain time is by living it. And if I live expending my energy worrying about other people's perceptions, then I'm missing my moment.

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.

For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I'm living right now.

My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."

I really think that if you live for today, tomorrow takes care of itself.