Adam Young Quotes

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.

To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing.

Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.

Take no moment for granted.

If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. I will always be dragged into the future, never able to live in the present moment.

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

I just want to enjoy every moment and try to be present in the moment of whatever I'm doing at that time.

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

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

The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.

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.

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

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.

Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.