Dylan Moran Quotes

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Some artists go through life not realizing that they have to be happy today. They're always thinking about the next job or the next thing: "I'll get this, then I'll be happy." Then you're miserable.

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

I know what I like and what I want, and I can sit and enjoy every 10 minutes that go by. And truly enjoy it.

As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.

I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success.

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.

I'm generally a very happy guy because I'm doing what I want. I'm willing to tell you that there are people who are much better than I am in writing. I don't have to be the fastest gun in the West.

I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

Life doesn't make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted.

In life, we all struggle and strive to make progress. When will you know you've reached success? A billion dollars is a good sign, but there's a better one - humility.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

I always wanted to understand the causes of happiness. I'm a bit of a scientist, I guess you could say.

I've had a lot of great stuff - spectacular stuff - happen to me. I've got to not be a pig about life.

I say to myself: 'Come on, Betty, you can't have everything in life. You've been very lucky.'

I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

I have inner peace; I have accomplished a great deal.