Ann Voskamp Quotes

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

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.

We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.

I don't focus on happiness as a goal or an end.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

You can be happy where you are.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.

Focus on what you have.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.

I've found a way to live in the here and now.

The way I'm seeing it, God has given me all this for me to realize that this isn't what I really need in my life.

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.

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.

I don't think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business - or for anyone. Most of the time goal setting puts too much energy and attention on being someplace else, instead of helping you appreciate where you are.If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people." I would not be telling myself constantly that I have to double my sales in order for me to be happy. I would tell myself, "I am content to be here in this moment, and I love this work."

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.

The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.