Gerald Jampolsky Quotes

I just see what's in front of me. That's what I'm happy with.

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.

Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

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.

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 now. And look! How rich we are in it!

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

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.

Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life.

If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

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

Let your joy be in your journey - not in some distant goal.

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

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

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

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.

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.

Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.

Be satisfied with what you have.