Patricia Briggs Quotes

I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

We need not worry about the future, we need not be prophetic about the future, we need not say a single thing about the future. We should be joyous and happy in this moment, and the next moment will be coming out of this moment. It will be suffused with the celebration of this moment, and naturally it will lead you into a higher celebration. The future is going to come out of this present.

We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

I think I'm generally an upbeat person. Obviously I can get moody, but my whole philosophy is to try and have a good time.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

You gotta appreciate every day!

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.

If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. [at least it will feel like it!]

When I get on the dance floor, my purpose in being on the dance floor is not to end up at another spot when the music stops. The purpose of the dance is to enjoy every step along the way.

Worrying is worthless. When you stop focusing on what has already happened and what may never happen, then you'll be in the present moment. Then you'll begin to experience joy in life.

My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the Moon. I'd like to ask you, don't hang up your dancing slippers.

Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there.

To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you miserable, nobody can disappoint you, nobody can make you a failure because in the first place you were not trying to be a success; you were not asking the future to be in a certain way. So whatever happens, the next moment you can rejoice. It is always your victory.

Everyone needs love, never hurt a living thing [and] don’t worry about the choices you make because everything will be fun because life is a closet filled with pool toys.

I try to see every day as a celebration.