Norah Jones Quotes

There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch - to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.

I sometimes get caught up in the big goals...That aren't really the ultimate goal, which is to be happy for what you have.

The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don't feel really good on your way to there, you can't get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you're reaching for more.

Walking beside you I want for nothing.

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now.

I am the happiest writing and being with the people I love.

I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.

I've just learned to enjoy every moment for what it is and take it all in.

Sometimes I think we live in a world where, even when things are good, people always feel unsatisfied with wherever they are, so I think first I just want to enjoy being happy where I am now and not let my ambition take away from being in the moment.

I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for it. You weren't able to enjoy it.' I want to be here, be now and be grateful.

If I'm with someone, and I'm happy, that's enough.

You just have to live today. And I think one of my New Year's resolutions is definitely trying to stop and live in the moment and cherish it.

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much less care; but try to obtain what you need, and make the best of every moment of your life.

Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.