David Simon Quotes

I literally have no idea what's to come. I try to just stay in the moment.

Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.

Let life unfold, say what you mean. You can’t always think about what you’ve lost, or what you don’t have, or what you didn’t get. Because when you do that, you’re missing out on the now. You can’t know if you’ll be here tomorrow or a year from now.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!

Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.

When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.

Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.

Don't place expectations on someone. Enjoy the time you have together, and let it go where it goes.

Don't worry about what might be...Worry about what is.

I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings.... if I've learned one thing from all that'shappened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.

Let go of what you can't control. Channel all that energy into living fully in the now.

No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift. There's no guarantee of tomorrow. And part of my whole philosophy is: this day is too important to live it angry, upset, discouraged or stressed out if plans don't work out. This is life, and I'm going to move on.

You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises.

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.