Ivan Turgenev Quotes

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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 happiest life is to be without thought

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

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

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

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

I just try to enjoy each day.

The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

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

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

Feel that you are happy without any cause for happiness.

Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.

Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What else could you need? Suddenly you see a flower and the flower sends its perfume to you. What else could you need? What more could you want? The whole sky goes on filling with stars, the whole life becomes a celebration because now everything is beautiful. Without expectation everything fulfills - just to breathe is enough, just to breathe is such a bliss.

I finally found me a cloud to float on.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.

If meditation is going rightly, deep, you will feel transformed throughout the whole day. A subtle contentment will be present every moment. With whatsoever you are doing, you will feel a cool center inside - contentment.

Paradise is where I am

Happy people have no history.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.