John Bingham Quotes

If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.

Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

Be satisfied with what you have.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own life at arm's length, thinking we'll wait until circumstances improve before giving it all we've got. But life is just a reflection of consciousness, so it's never going to give any more to us than we give to it. Don't wait for a perfect life; breathe in the life that's already perfect.

It's got to be the going, not the getting there, that's good.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

When you arrive where you thought you wanted to be, you'll just begin a new journey so enjoy each step along the way

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don't feel really good on your way to there, you can't get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you're reaching for more.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

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

If the day comes when I'm no longer playing Phil Coulson, I'll very gratefully bid him farewell, because it's been an incredible journey, but I've learned that it's best to just be grateful for where I am and make the most out of that opportunity that day.

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

Sometimes I think we live in a world where, even when things are good, people always feel unsatisfied with wherever they are, so I think first I just want to enjoy being happy where I am now and not let my ambition take away from being in the moment.