J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Life is such a beautiful thing. When you sit for a moment during the day and live that particular moment, everything seems perfect.

I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.

Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

I scarcely remember counting upon happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.

I don't want to not enjoy where I am at this very moment. So, every time I plan something the exact opposite happens. I hope that I'm always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

Today, I am blessed to be living a dream. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace.

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

You don't really get Jesus saying very often there'll be pie in the sky when you die. He's really talking about now and today, and it's supposed to be like that. You're supposed to delight in what's right in front of you.

I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!

Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.

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

Happiness is never grand.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us - here and now.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace

The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.

You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.

I like taking my time and seeing the things around me and appreciating the now. I started to realize that the things that helped me do that were these things that brought me love, brought me joy. And if we're all just falling towards an eventual end, falling towards the ground, then these things are parachutes.

look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far

Every day is perfect because there's no other day! As a friend of mine said, "Ride the horse in the direction it's going." When you do that, you realize that every moment, every breath, every sound, every encounter is a gift. You bloody well better enjoy it.