Hussein Chalayan Quotes

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature.

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.

Don't meditate on what you don't have, and remind yourself what you do have.

People should be faced with losing everything a little bit more often because it really helps put a lot of things into perspective.

Personally, I don't think about the things I have won but the things I have lost.

For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.

I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?

I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.

Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

Don't wish today away. Don't waste it. Redeem one hour to be grateful. Let your thanksgiving rise above the din of disappointment - opportunities lost, mistakes made, the clamor of all that has not yet come.

I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even think about what I've achieved, I haven't focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don't know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still haven't marveled at it.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

Time And well being are two valuable belongings that we do not acknowledge and respect till they've been depleted.

You need only look at what's in front of you and find something there to appreciate.