Brownie McGhee Quotes

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

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

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.

A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

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

I've been really aware of how important it is to me to just stay in the moment and enjoy it while it lasts. Because that's all you've got. If it ends, I'll move on to doing something else. If it lasts, great.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I really - I try not to look ahead too far into the future and really just appreciate the here and now.

I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.

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

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

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.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.

You don't miss what you never had.

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.