Peter Mayle Quotes

I try to keep focused on the things that really make me happy and just do those same things.

I'm talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment.

Don't evaluate your life in terms of achievements, trivial or monumental, along the way... Instead, wake up and appreciate everything you encounter along your path. Enjoy the flowers that are there for your pleasure. Tune in to the sunrise, the little children, the laughter, the rain, and the birds. Drink it all in... there is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

I think that life is just too sweet to be bitter.

Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Enjoy the moment and appreciate what you have.

The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.

I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.

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

Simple things make me very happy.

When you have something to enjoy, it is important that you do.

Usually, when I'm having a good time, I don't think about it that much. I tend to become more reflective or introspective.

I try to take time to find joy out of life, and I don't take a day for granted like I used to.

I have to enjoy every moment.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

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.

They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.