Zachary Quinto Quotes

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

When you enjoy the moment you're in, it shows in your actions, it shows in your words, in your expressions and in your eyes.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are. Contentment means acceptance, discontentment means non-acceptance. A wants to become B - that is discontent. A is perfectly happy in being A, there is no desire to become B - that is contentment.

If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

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

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

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.

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

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for it. You weren't able to enjoy it.' I want to be here, be now and be grateful.

To me, 'success' is happiness and my top tip for happiness would be to understand and learn to use perspective.

All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.

Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.

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.