Taya Kyle Quotes

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

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.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.

I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.

Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Today, I am blessed to be living a dream. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace.

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.

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

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

To know that every moment - regardless of how it comes wrapped - is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

I've just learned to enjoy every moment for what it is and take it all in.

I have gotten better at saying to myself, 'Relax and just take this moment in. Appreciate it for what it is.'