Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

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

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.

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

Let your joy be in your journey - not in some distant goal.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.

I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I'm an old hippie who lives in the now. I seldom look forward, but we have to.

The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

I really - I try not to look ahead too far into the future and really just appreciate the here and now.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

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.

Living in the past or living in the future - those aren't real. The moment is now, and that's where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is.

We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.