Top 100 Quotes About Present Happiness
#1. It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.
Orson Scott Card
#2. The mountain-path of Action is no longer a path for me; my future hope pauses with my present happiness in the shadowed valley of Repose.
Wilkie Collins
#3. Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.
Bill Gothard
#4. Everything is unfolding based on causes and conditions. Our happiness or suffering is dependent on how we relate to the present moment. If we cling now, we suffer later. If we let go and respond with compassion or friendliness, we create happiness and well-being for the future.
Noah Levine
#5. If you repeat your negative memories in your mind and feel self-pity, then YOU are both the abuser and the victim - not those who wronged you in the past. Your present and future will be happier if you take control of your thoughts.
Maddy Malhotra
#6. Oh, if only the suffering soul knew how it is loved by God, it would die of joy and excess of happiness! Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer. The present moment is ours.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#7. Don't wait to celebrate life until you retire, because you never know the day you will expire.
Maddy Malhotra
#8. The Present is the womb of the future.
A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly.
Look after the present and the future will look after itself.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
#9. 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.
Marshall Goldsmith
#10. On the off-chance you won't live forever, maybe you should try being happy now.
Janice Kaplan
#11. The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us ... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.
Octavio Paz
#12. Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.
Adoniram Judson
#13. Forgive the past, love and live the present, and welcome the future.
Debasish Mridha
#14. I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.
Leo Tolstoy
#15. Happiness is waking up in the morning with no regrets or worries for the present or future; it is having peace in the moment.
Nicole Carr
#16. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)
Thich Nhat Hanh
#18. -make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being ...
Aldous Huxley
#19. The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.
John Kuypers
#20. By letting go with gratitude, you are not losing anything, but you are gaining the wisdom, present moment, and future of endless possibilities.
Debasish Mridha
#21. True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him ... It is mans innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness.
Ludwig Von Mises
#22. When you do what's important now for you, you create a past that leaves you ready to handle the present. By default, the future is taking care of itself as you make decisions that are acceptable to you no matter what happens tomorrow.
John Kuypers
#23. In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
Horace Mann
#24. Happy Wednesday! Happiness is found from within when you learn to appreciate your blessings, LIVE in the present and LOVE!
Tracey Edmonds
#25. The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220
John Kuypers
#26. Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life.
Nhat Hanh
#27. Respect the past, and prepare for the future by taking action in the present.
Rob Martin
#28. Happiness does not dwell in some past event or future experience. It is an emotion that can only be focused upon and enjoyed in the present moment.
D.S. Luca
#30. Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.
Noah Levine
#31. The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.
Deepak Chopra
#32. You must be present to win." And that's what this book is about - being present in our lives to gain the happiness we deserve, for ourselves and equally for others.
Jean Smith
#33. Be thankful for a breath of fresh air to be alive and well. Allow love and happiness to penetrate throughout your mind and soul. Take time to relax and live in the moment, the now, the present. Enjoy today.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#34. Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
Hugh Prather
#36. I feel like every present moment is the moment I was waiting and preparing for my whole life.
Debasish Mridha
#37. You have to open up to the world and learn optimism ... Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.
Jennifer Crusie
#38. Everything real is in the present moment. Only here can we find happiness and harmony, feel alive and do something that will change our future. Only here can we be with the people we love, enjoy the things we like and see beautiful places.
Lidiya K.
#39. When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future.
Gretchen Rubin
#40. [Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.
Jean Vanier
#41. States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.
Stefan Zweig
#42. Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.
Barbara Barrington Jones
#43. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
#44. Walk through the past and learn the way. I am walking through the present, taking action every day. I am preparing for the future in a great way.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.
Stephen Covey
#46. But you always have a choice. You can choose to find comfort and solace in God. You can choose to be brave and compassionate. And you can choose to find beauty and happiness wherever they present themselves.
Kiersten White
#47. Present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
John Dryden
#48. We cannot let go of the past enough to live in the present unless we are able to grieve our losses. We must deeply feel our emotional pain in order to accept that what is happening is not what we wanted. pg 155
John Kuypers
#49. It is key to remember we can maintain a genuine enthusiasm and love for what IS, in the PRESENT moment, enjoy it with gratitude for all of the blessings in our lives.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#50. When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose.
John Kuypers
#51. I have always lived in the present, accepted the misfortunes, made peace with the disappointments, delighted in its little blessings, found happiness in whatever the present moment has offered and sat in the shade of sadness to let the dark moments pass by.
Balroop Singh
#52. The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.
Francoise Sagan
#53. Reality is in the ether, a blend of present-day experiences infused with one's memories and dreams. A life that is real to one is surreal to another.
Fennel Hudson
#54. At any given moment the choice to be happy is present- we just have to choose to be happy.
Steve Maraboli
#55. Don't let the darkness of your past block the light of joy in your present. What happened is done. Stop giving time to things that no longer exist when there is so much joy to be found in the here and now.
Karen Salmansohn
#56. Forgive the past and let it go with great gratitude. It will allow us to embrace present and future with love, enthusiasm and passion.
Debasish Mridha
#57. At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit ... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise; as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.
Henry David Thoreau
#58. Happiness is like rising bubbles
delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen
ever present.
Danielle LaPorte
#59. We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
Epicurus
#60. Kindness isn't sacrifice so much as it is being considerate for the feelings of others, sharing happiness, the unselfish thought, the spontaneous and friendly act, forgetfulness of our own present interests.
Carl Holmes
#61. There is one undeniable truth about our body: it only exists in the present moment.
John Kuypers
#62. It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable.
Fay Weldon
#63. Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Nhat Hanh
#64. Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
Douglas Horton
#65. There is a transcendent awareness, a Big Mind, a Big Heart, present and readily accessible to each and every one of us. When we realize it, we see it is the source of true peace, happiness, satisfaction, courage and joy.
Dennis Merzel
#66. When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.
Shannon L. Alder
#67. since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present.
Erich Fromm
#68. Peace is present in every breath we take.
Peace is present in every loving gesture we make.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Do not wait for the future to be happy. You are happy now, or you are not.
Alan Cohen
#70. What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present
Alan Watts
#71. My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai.
Tony Jaa
#72. The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but it's only your imaginations, that extend your momentary happiness, for some more time.
Roshan Sharma
#74. Chain of envy linked them, showing each what was lacking in life, but offering also the consolation that happiness was present right next door, in the life of a neighbour, an element of the same society.
Aravind Adiga
#76. When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your soul where He is present for your happiness; welcome Him as warmly as possible, and behave outwardly in such a way that your actions may give proof to all of His Presence.
Saint Francis De Sales
#77. Writing and drawing are very therapeutic, but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want, or to write a story about it to bring the manifestation forward into the present.
Alice McCall
#78. Let today be the day you finally release yourself from the imprisonment of past grudges and anger. Simplify your life. Let go of the poisonous past and live the abundantly beautiful present ... today.
Steve Maraboli
#79. The key to happiness is to listen to campy Parisian music and smile at a bird. It hinges on insanity, but it works.
Erica Goros
#80. When we go home to the present moment, we understand there are so many conditions of happiness that we don't need to go running after yet another one. We already have enough conditions to be happy. Happiness is entirely possible right in the here and now. The
Thich Nhat Hanh
#81. The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
Virginia Postrel
#82. Never let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present.
Anonymous
#83. Acknowledge the present moment. It is the greatest present in your life.
Debasish Mridha
#84. Suddenly I'm happy there in the fuzziness of sleep, and maybe this is what happiness is - not a dream or a promise - just living for the moment.
Delphine De Vigan
#85. live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day. Anna's
Mark T. Sullivan
#86. In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present.
Danny DeVito
#87. My love for you spans over the lines of my past, present, and future. You are what I love remembering, what I love experiencing, and what I love looking forward to.
Steve Maraboli
#88. In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope that the day will come when the memory of my present joy will give me the strength to keep giving even when loneliness gnaws at my heart.
Henri Nouwen
#89. The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
Joseph Butler
#90. I give myself permission
to enjoy the present moment.
Human Angels
#91. Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.
Emmet Fox
#93. Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible.
John Kuypers
#94. Where can you find purpose? Like success and happiness, our purpose exists in the present, and we constantly strive toward the future to maintain it. What it is for which we strive is up to each of us. The important thing is that we strive toward something.
Philip Zimbardo
#95. By letting go of the past with love and gratitude, I am creating beautiful memories, which are living in me, but I am living at present not in memories.
Debasish Mridha
#96. It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.
Roy Bennett
#97. At present, indeed, they were well supplied both with news and happiness by the recent arrival of a militia regiment in the neighbourhood; it
Jane Austen
#99. People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that."
"If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it.
Nick Vujicic
#100. It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.
Epictetus
