Joko Beck Quotes

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.

Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

I'm fine with the life I have.

Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

The big thing I've discovered, the big secret, is that it's all about how happy you are. It's the ultimate thing. People forget your flaws and imperfections if they see you're happy.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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

With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

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.

I don't ever feel the need to escape.

You can be happy where you are.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.