„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.“
— Ramana Maharshi Indian religious leader 1879 - 1950
Abide as the Self
„Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.“
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„To it more than anything else I owe whatever success I have had — to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it well to the best of my ability, and letting the future take care of itself.“
— William Osler Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital 1849 - 1919
Remarks at a farewell dinner address in New York (20 May 1905), later published in Aequanimitas, and Other Addresses (1910 edition), p. 473.
Context: I have had three personal ideals: One to do the day's work well and not to bother about tomorrow. You may say that is not a satisfactory ideal. It is; and there is not one which the student can carry with him into practice with greater effect. To it more than anything else I owe whatever success I have had — to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it well to the best of my ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
The second ideal has been to act the Golden Rule, as far as in me lay, toward my professional brethren and toward the patients committed to my care.
And the third has been to cultivate such a measure of equanimity as would enable me to bear success with humility, the affection of my friends without pride, and to be ready when the day of sorrow and grief came, to meet it with the courage befitting a man.
What the future has in store for me, I cannot tell — you cannot tell. Nor do I care much, so long as I carry with me, as I shall, the memory of the past you have given me. Nothing can take that away.
„Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself……“
— Paramahansa Yogananda, book Autobiography of a Yogi
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi
„Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment.“
— Paramahansa Yogananda Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship 1893 - 1952
„The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926
Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ
„Caring about your self as it will be in the future is no more reasonable than caring about the self you are now.“
— John Gray, book Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
The Vices of Morality: A weakness for prudence (p. 105)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
„When it is time to dress, make-up, take your bath and eat, it is time to hurry. Those things have little to do with your future. Don’t waste your time on what cannot guarantee your future; your mirror keeps deceiving you.“
— T. B. Joshua Nigerian Christian leader 1963
On the fickleness of outward beauty - "TB Joshua Speaks On Beauty, Business" https://www.nigeriafilms.com/style/131-religion-section/29715-tb-joshua-speaks-on-beauty-business Nigeria Films (March 23 2015)
„If your destination, or the steps you are going to take in the future, take up so much of your attention that they become more important to you than the step you are taking now, then you completely miss the journey’s inner purpose, which has nothing to do with where you are going or what you are doing, but everything to do with how. It has nothing to do with future but everything to do with the quality of your consciousness at this moment.“
— Eckhart Tolle, book The Power of Now
The Power of Now (1997)
„Take hold of your future or the future will take hold of you - be futurewise.“
— Patrick Dixon, book Futurewise
Futurewise (1998)
„We focus on building innovation and inventing technology futures and we figure that it will take care of the rest. So far, it's done wonders.“
— Philippe Kahn Entrepreneur, camera phone creator 1952
On financial planning at a speech at the Smithsonian.
„Good luck to all of our guests, hope you can find some happiness in your future endeavours…, …until next time, take care of yourself and each other.“
— Jerry Springer American television presenter, former lawyer, politician, news presenter, actor, and musician 1944
Springer's common beginning and ending to his lectures
„It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.“
— Alfred North Whitehead English mathematician and philosopher 1861 - 1947
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 13: Requisites for Social Progress.
„Prolong not the past
Invite not the future
Do not alter your innate wakefulness
Fear not appearances
There in nothing more than this“
— Ram Dass American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now 1931 - 2019
„If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.“
— Eckhart Tolle German writer 1948
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
„each generation wastes a little more
of the future with greed and lust for riches“
— Don Marquis American writer 1878 - 1937
archy and mehitabel (1927), what the ants are saying
„In this our social state, where petty cares
And mercenary interests only look
Upon the present's littleness, and shrink
From the bold future, and the stately past“
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838
A Summer Evening’s Tale
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)