John Cage Quotes

We would be happier with what we have if we weren't so unhappy about what we don't' 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.

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.

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.

No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

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.

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

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

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

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.

Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.

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.

Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .

Long only for what you have.

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

I like wherever I am. That's my big secret.

If we're not enjoying what we've got...and even if we do get 'more,' we won't enjoy that, either.

Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.

I’m beginning to think that you don’t find happiness from living your life looking ahead or back… that you find it when you look around.

So, it's good to be here, wherever I am.