Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

You'll be alive', he pointed out. 'That's what matters. Enjoy what you have, every little detail of wherever you are. Don't focus on where you aren't.

Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.

If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.

You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

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.

If you are worrying about tomorrow, you can't possibly enjoy today. Think about it: you can't really give God tomorrow; you can give him only what you have, and today is all you have.

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

Take your love and your pleasure as you find it. Do not worry so much of the future that you let today pass you by. you are happy. need you know more than that?

Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life.

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

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

Focus on what you have.

Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.

I need to take everything one step at a time. If I think about that too much, I'll miss this amazing experience.