T. J. Perkins Quotes

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

I don't mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you've got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.

I can easily be lying in the gutter with someone kicking mud in my face tomorrow as easily as I can float in the clouds with angels sprinkling fairy dust in my hair. So, I make an effort to treat both success and failure equally.

It's good to mind about things but not to give it too much weight, because there are some things you cannot change.

The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

I've been really aware of how important it is to me to just stay in the moment and enjoy it while it lasts. Because that's all you've got. If it ends, I'll move on to doing something else. If it lasts, great.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.

The things you cannot change you can't waste your time on.

I take everything very seriously, but I also take it lighthearted to recognize that you can't control it.

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

The first rule of negotiation is to always be willing to walk away from the deal. The first rule of happiness is to not be attached to pleasing moments.

I just think about how much worse something could be, and I'm like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' I'm nonchalant.

My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.

We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness can be our refuge.

It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

Don't get too attached to anything.

The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

I follow life's changes, continue with my time-outs, and remain curious about what's next.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.