Lev Grossman Quotes

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

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

Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.

If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today.

I just consciously try to enjoy the good things that are happening. And if it ended tomorrow, that would be fine.

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

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.

The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.

I enjoy what I'm doing at the moment and try not to think too much about the future.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

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

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.

The ideal is to live forever, right? Or to live right now and just be grateful that I feel good. I'm definitely grateful for every second that I'm alive. At this point in my life, I definitely take time out throughout the day to just stop and be like, "Everything is cool." It's as good as it's gonna be, because it only gets worse.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.

May we never let the things we can't have or don't have or shouldn't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.

I do feel as if I'm living a blessed life at the moment. I've been thinking about the phrase 'living a dream,' because that's exactly what is happening. I'm just trying to go with the flow and take each day as it comes, otherwise I might freak out at all the things that have happened recently.

When there is no expectation there is no possibility of frustration. Expectation is the mother of all frustrations; expectation gone, frustration disappears. And when there is no frustration in your life, life really becomes a bed of roses. Then God is a constant blessing; he goes on raining his grace, his beauty on you.