Alan Watts Quotes

It's exciting being in the present. You're always reading emails, talking about the future, looking at pictures on Facebook of the past. But living in the present? It's almost a dead medium. I almost want to do a sketch about being in the present.

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

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

People get too caught up in what they don't have and get bogged down as a result. There's joy in the present. It's important to just make the most of the these moments we have. Keep an eye on the future, but don't forget to enjoy NOW.

I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?

It's all about enjoying the powerful NOW. I really love what I do.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I think it's witty. And I have those great clothes. You have a great, witty, intelligent script and you look like a million dollars, because we have a great costumer, and it's a pretty good place to begin.

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

I don't know my future. I don't know about tomorrow. I can just control for today or present, right now. I don't want to think about future too much, because present is most important for me.

Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.

Look to the present. The great disease of 'I will be happy when ...' is sweeping the world. You know the symptoms. You start thinking: I'll be happy when I get that ... BMW ... promotion ... status ... money. The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now.

I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Today is plenty; right now is enough. Tomorrow will come in good time. Until it does, live the depth of now.

Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!

Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

Let's have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves. "Now thyself" is more important than "know thyself." Reason is what tells us to ignore the present and live in the future. So all we do is make plans. We think that somewhere there are going to be green pastures. It's crazy. Heaven is nothing but a grand, monumental instance of future. Listen, now is good. Now is wonderful.

Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.

Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy, but more than anything live it fully.

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.