Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

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.

I’m beginning to think that you don’t find happiness from living your life looking ahead or back… that you find it when you look around.

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.

I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now.

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

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

I am not a person who I am thinking about what I achieved or what I don't achieve. I am a person who try to enjoy the moment. That's what I do.

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.

If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

I really - I try not to look ahead too far into the future and really just appreciate the here and now.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.

The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

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.

I don't think too far ahead because I want to appreciate what's happening now.

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

I've just learned to enjoy every moment for what it is and take it all in.

You just have to live today. And I think one of my New Year's resolutions is definitely trying to stop and live in the moment and cherish it.