Urijah Faber Quotes

If we're not enjoying what we've got...and even if we do get 'more,' we won't enjoy that, either.

I don't think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business - or for anyone. Most of the time goal setting puts too much energy and attention on being someplace else, instead of helping you appreciate where you are.If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people." I would not be telling myself constantly that I have to double my sales in order for me to be happy. I would tell myself, "I am content to be here in this moment, and I love this work."

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.

Be satisfied with what you have.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.

The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

I do feel as if I'm living a blessed life at the moment. I've been thinking about the phrase 'living a dream,' because that's exactly what is happening. I'm just trying to go with the flow and take each day as it comes, otherwise I might freak out at all the things that have happened recently.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

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.

People get too caught up in what they don't have and get bogged down as a result. There's joy in the present. It's important to just make the most of the these moments we have. Keep an eye on the future, but don't forget to enjoy NOW.

If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

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

Contentment is the only real wealth.

The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

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.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.