Esther Hicks Quotes

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

You can be happy where you are.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

Sometimes I think we live in a world where, even when things are good, people always feel unsatisfied with wherever they are, so I think first I just want to enjoy being happy where I am now and not let my ambition take away from being in the moment.

As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

I don't think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business - or for anyone. Most of the time goal setting puts too much energy and attention on being someplace else, instead of helping you appreciate where you are.If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people." I would not be telling myself constantly that I have to double my sales in order for me to be happy. I would tell myself, "I am content to be here in this moment, and I love this work."

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.

The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.

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.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

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.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.

I don't need much to be happy.

Learn how to enjoy where you are on the way to where you're going.

Be satisfied with what you have.

If we're not enjoying what we've got...and even if we do get 'more,' we won't enjoy that, either.