Ani DiFranco Quotes

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it!

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

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.

Don't look for the next opportunity, the one you have in hand is the opportunity.

Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.

To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

When I look around I think this, this is good enough; And I laugh at whatever life brings because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up, I just trip over things.

Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn't anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things!

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.

Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.

If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. I will always be dragged into the future, never able to live in the present moment.

You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing.

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.

I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!

I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.