Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

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.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

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

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.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

I just consciously try to enjoy the good things that are happening. And if it ended tomorrow, that would be fine.

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.

I always live in the present - I love the present. I cherish the future.

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

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

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.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

You gotta appreciate every day!

Youthful impatience obscures the endless potential for joy that's standing right in front of you.

I enjoy what I'm doing at the moment and try not to think too much about the future.

For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

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.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there.