Josh Groban Quotes

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

It keeps you grounded, you lead a regular life and you appreciate things more.

Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

I aspire only to silence.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

The most important thing we do is not doing.

HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go of the desire to acquire, you know you are really on your way.

We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

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

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Enjoy everything. Need nothing.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.