Katie Holmes Quotes

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

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.

I like to stay happy, and I like to live life light and make the best of life.

I just take things one day at a time. I'm just thankful that I have my legs, my arms, my eyes.

Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness

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 get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

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.

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.

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.

The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us - here and now.

Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

I scarcely remember counting upon happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.

I am grateful for who I am and who I am not. I am grateful for the life I have been given and for all that I have and all that I don't. Every breath I take is a blessing and an opportunity to fully experience the sheer joy of being alive.

Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.

A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.

My life has been a blessing. I'm grateful for everything I do have and the places I'm going and the things I've seen.

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.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.