T. J. Perkins Quotes

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

My focus is to try to appreciate the present moment more and more and more.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

Cancer taught me to live only in the day I'm in. In the moment I'm in. Some moments, I simply ground myself by touching the desk, the table, the wall wherever I am and say, 'You're right here. Stay put in this moment.'

I've realized that no problem is as hopeless as it first may seem, I've learned how to live day to day and show others how to do the same, and most of all, I've learned how to just be.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

I have gotten better at saying to myself, 'Relax and just take this moment in. Appreciate it for what it is.'

The key is to be Zen-like and be happy with what one has.

One of the things I do struggle with is being in the present.

I try to stay in the moment.

Take each day as it comes and focus on the present moment.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.

When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

Stay present. You'll always have time to worry later on if you want to.

Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.

Be. Here. NOW. Don't forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose.