Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

It's tremendous: this world, this life. Take it while you have it.

I wouldn't change my life for the world at the moment.

When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

We get too caught up in the moneymaking part of life. My own biggest concerns are to stay healthy and happy. I think the business will take care of itself and, when I put that thought out into the world, it happens. My company is absolutely growing and growing and growing.

My whole effort is how to beautify this present moment, how to make people more celebrating, how to make people more joyous, how to give them a little glimpse of blissfulness, how to bring laughter to their life. Then the future takes care of itself. You need not think of the tomorrow, it comes. It comes out of this moment. Let this moment be of great celebration.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

Living in the now is freedom from all problems connected with time. You ought to remember that sentence, you ought to memorize it, and ought to take it out, you ought to practice it, you ought to apply it. And most of all, you ought to rejoice in it because you have just heard how not to be wretched, miserable you any more but to be a brand new, and forever brand new man or woman.

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

One of the problems with worry is that it keeps you from enjoying what you have.

When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

I'm sitting on top of the world, and I've got hemorrhoids.

If you could wish on a star right now, what would you wish for?"I ask him. "For time to stop. "Why?" He shrugs. "Cause I could live forever at this moment.

What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for.

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.