Bryant Gumbel Quotes

I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.

I suppose I'm very aware of time and of memories and of enjoying life... not just doing the right thing and being a useful person, which I certainly wanna be and believe that I am. I hold onto my family really tight and try to be as good a woman as I can be in my life.

Your life is right now! It's not later! It's not in that time of retirement. It's not when the lover gets here. It's not when you've moved into the new house. It's not when you get the better job. Your life is right now. It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it's not ever going to get better than right now-until it gets better right now!

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.

If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.

I learned you really do have to make sure you enjoy life.

It's hard to take your life so seriously when you can see it all at once.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.

Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

I just want to live my life the best way I can and enjoy the moment that I have off the court because you need to find a good balance. I think this is very important.

Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.

Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.

Cynicism can be funny. But it's the easy way. You'll forget to enjoy anything. I try to make the evolving choice, the forward-moving, life-giving choice. Just keep living, man.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

Don't take life too seriously.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The thing that's worth doing is trying to improve our understanding of the world and gain a better appreciation of the universe and not to worry too much about there being no meaning. And, you know, try and enjoy yourself. Because, actually, life's pretty good. It really is.

However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the lay, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.

I can’t seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present.

The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing - and of life - is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where you are when the music ends.