Julia Roberts Quotes

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

What's the point of being sad?" he says. "We're here now.

All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.

We are a time-starved people, obsessed with fitting huge achievements into our few years. In the process, we often fill our buckets with things that don't matter or work. But when we give up on trying to change what can't be changed, and simply embrace what we love, a miracle occurs. We notice that the moment to be happy has already arrived. It's here, now.

I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time.

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.

Happiness is not something that you pursue; it is something that you allow. Happiness is just being.

Retailers should not be filling their minds with all the things that are wrong, with how the economy is going, or with trying to get someplace in the business world. They should enjoy being in this moment and in this day and serving the people who come in.

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy, but more than anything live it fully.

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive.

There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment.