Joe Strummer Quotes

Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

We have to realize that our lives could be gone in a moment. There are no guarantees that we will be here at this time next year. Learn to live each day to the fullest. Don't complain. Don't focus on what's wrong. Be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day.

Greed arises only because your present moment is empty, and to live in an empty moment hurts very much. To forget it you project greed into the future, thinking that tomorrow things are going to be better, a lottery is going to open in your name. But of course you have to wait for tomorrow, it cannot be just now - and tomorrow never comes. All that comes is always the present moment, which is empty. Greed is because we don't know how to live the present moment in its total richness.

We shouldn't wait to be happy until we reach some future point, only to discover that happiness was already available all the time!

I’m beginning to think that you don’t find happiness from living your life looking ahead or back… that you find it when you look around.

I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. 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.

What ever your doing right now, whatever your thinking, or worrying about. stop. take a huge breathe in, and just enjoy being alive.

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.

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. I will always be dragged into the future, never able to live in the present moment.

Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

I don't think too far ahead because I want to appreciate what's happening now.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

Life doesn't make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted.

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

You gotta appreciate every day!

I was brought up to appreciate the here and now, and, knowing this is your only life, to view death as an inevitable and reassuring end.

I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That's my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments.