Bonnie Hunt Quotes

I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.

For me... I feel like gratitude has really helped me to keep perspective on everything. The gratitude of doing what I get to do. The gratitude for my everyday life. The gratitude for simple things.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Sometimes I need people around me to remind me, to keep enjoying the small things.

It's really not about what you have. It's about how you're able to enjoy life in general.

I'm not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I'm not a bigger star than I am. I can walk down the street in most places in the world and I still drive really nice cars.

Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What else could you need? Suddenly you see a flower and the flower sends its perfume to you. What else could you need? What more could you want? The whole sky goes on filling with stars, the whole life becomes a celebration because now everything is beautiful. Without expectation everything fulfills - just to breathe is enough, just to breathe is such a bliss.

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.

It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story.

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

It doesn't matter if you have one billion rupees in your bank account or one rupee. This is one life you get, and you'd rather spend it enjoying whatever you have, rather than thinking, 'Oh, I should have scored seven more runs, or I should get more money.'

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Life is wonderful beautiful journey. Every episode of my life is like a dream, and I am at peace and happy with what life has given me.

I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.