Kent Nerburn Quotes

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

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

When I wake up in the morning, I like to express my gratitude for being on the planet. That gratefulness makes me very present.

I really know what it's like to work and live every moment now, and I'm really grateful for that.

On your journey, don't forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you're alive. You can only live in one day.

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.

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.

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.

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.

"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?"

If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.

Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.

Slow down and enjoy the journey right now. Take time for the people in your life. They won't always be there.

We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain-now that we know how to cherish them.

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

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

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

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Cancer taught me to live only in the day I'm in. In the moment I'm in. Some moments, I simply ground myself by touching the desk, the table, the wall wherever I am and say, 'You're right here. Stay put in this moment.'