Quotes on Happiness Is A Choice

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

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

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.