Jackson Browne Quotes

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it swallows you whole while your sittin round thinkin 'bout what you can't change and worrying about all the wrong things times flying by moving so fast you better use it all cause you can't get it back sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand and what you've been out there searching for forever is in your hands ooooo when you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

You should never get nervous about anything. What today seems important tomorrow isn't so any more.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Stay big in your work and small in your life.

The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.

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.

I do try not to dwell on the past too much, because I have a tendency to do that, and as I've gotten older, I've gotten very good at distancing myself from shoulda, woulda, coulda.

I don't really want to go into it, because whenever I say anything about my past now, it becomes a pissing match... but I realised that I had acquiesced, in my 40s, to an idea of 'You know what, maybe this thing that you wanted in your life, maybe it just wasn't important.'

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

You can get too involved with all the wee things in life, but the most important thing is you're alive and well.

I've had to learn that not everything is so serious.

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

Always keep things in perspective.

Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.

Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.