Echoes

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

It is indeed foolish to be unhappy now because you may be unhappy at some future time.

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

Accept everything just the way it is.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.

There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live – I have no use for the sour-faced man – and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, but love it.

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.

Do not, my soul, seek immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Comparison is the thief of joy.