Emily Giffin Quotes

Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.

The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you.

There is still so much drama in my life, but I'm not a sad person anymore.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

Things don't weigh me down any more. I confront things, and I move on. I don't dwell on things; I don't let things simmer under the surface. I am where it starts and where it ends. I have the power in my life to be happy.

The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.

I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.

Happiness is a choice. Choose to be happy.

Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.

Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.

There is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer. If you look at your life you will find many excuses to suffer, but a good reason to suffer you will not find. The same is true for happiness. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.

Happiness is a choice; not just a matter of genes or good luck.

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei