Ramana Maharshi Quotes

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

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.

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

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

The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

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.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".

I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

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

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

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

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

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

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.

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It’s good to have a big – picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you’re always living in the future, you’re never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

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.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

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.