Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.

I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.

Every morning, I wake up and think about 10 different things I'm thankful for, and I continue to spread that love throughout the day, always visualizing, meditating, and growing.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

I wake up every morning feeling like I have the best life.

When I wake up in the morning, I like to express my gratitude for being on the planet. That gratefulness makes me very present.

What I look at, success is about really being grateful. You wake up in the morning, and you're thankful that you could breathe because it's a beautiful planet we live on, and I know there is a lot of struggle and pain, but there is more joy.

Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

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 think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.