Eddie Murphy Quotes

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.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

For me, it's important to concentrate to the present and leave the past.

I take one day at a time. I've always been like that.

Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.

I enjoy what I'm doing at the moment and try not to think too much about the future.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.

Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

Enjoy life's moments. Do not take them for granted, because you never know which one will be the last. Also, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things will be added unto you. In other words, get your priorities straight; figure out what really matters, and focus on that.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.

It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it!